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Rutilio Grande García, S.J. (5 July 1928, El Paisnal – 12 March 1977, Aguilares) was a Jesuit priest in El Salvador. He was assassinated in 1977, along with two other Salvadorans. Rutilio Grande was the ...
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Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (18 October 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 79th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 pre ...
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Salvador Sánchez Cerén (born 18 June 1944) is a Salvadoran politician who served as the 45th President of El Salvador between 1 June 2014 and 1 June 2019. He took office on 1 June 2014, after winning the ...
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María Julia Hernández (January 30, 1939 – March 30, 2007) was a prominent human rights advocate who tried to speak for victims of the civil war in El Salvador. She was the founding director of Tutela Legal ...
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Nelson Rutilio Lemus Chávez (10 November 1960 – 12 March 1977) was a Salvadoran Roman Catholic. He was an active participant in his local parish and was often involved in helping others to read the Bible ...
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Manuel Solórzano (1905 – 12 March 1977) was a Salvadoran Roman Catholic. He was an active participant in his local parish and was close with its priest Rutilio Grande García. He was slain alongside Grande ...
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Loly Rico is the president of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants. She is married to Francisco Rico-Martinez, with whom she co-directs the Toronto-based Faithful Companions of Jesus Refugee ...
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José Adolfo Mojica Morales (September 26, 1936 – March 2, 2012) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsonate, El Salvador.
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Cortina was born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1934, but his family fled to France as refugees from the Spanish Civil War, later returning. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1954, at the age of 19. The following ...