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El Salvador website

El Salvador website

We have up-dated the El Salvador web-site at: http://www.episcopalian.org/elsalvador/index.htm

18 November 1998

Quest for Peace - Response to Hurricane Mitch

Quest for Peace - Response to Hurricane Mitch

On Tuesday November 3, the Nicaraguan government released the seven cargo containers that had been impounded for 3-4 months. 

04 November 1998

New Bishop Inducted

New Bishop Inducted

The Revd Miguel Tamayo Saldivar has been inducted as the new Anglican Bishop of Uruguay yesterday in the Holy Trinity Metropolitan Cathedral in Montevideo.

09 June 1998

Cardinal Preaches in Anglican Cathedral

Cardinal Preaches in Anglican Cathedral

(ALC)In an unprecedented act in the country's religious history, Ecuadorian Cardinal Bernardino Echeverria offered a sermon in the Anglican Church's El Salvador Cathedral.

30 January 1998

Church Leaders call for Peace

Church Leaders call for Peace

(ALC/ACNS ) Christians, Hindus and Muslims gathered at the National Park Stadium in Georgetown, Guyana's on Sunday 11 January for an interfaith service for peace and atonement.

23 January 1998

Churches respond to expelled immigrants from USA

Churches respond to expelled immigrants from USA

A leader from the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) has proposed creating a bridge of solidarity between North American Churches and Central American immigrants who could be expelled from the United States under the new immigration law.

30 May 1997

Argentina: Land Rights of Indians Still Not Resolved

Argentina: Land Rights of Indians Still Not Resolved

Further to the ACNS report in the mailing of November 1996 about the land rights campaign by the Wichi and Chorote Indians of the Northern Argentine Chaco, Bishop Patrick Harris, Bishop of Southwell and a former Bishop of Northern Argentina, sent this report update to ACNS.

27 January 1997

Guatemala: Will peace end outside help?

Guatemala: Will peace end outside help?

A Guatemalan Church leader is afraid that peace will mean an end to international support for justice and reconciliation in Guatemala.  "Once peace has been signed on a piece of paper, we'll be left alone," warned Miguel Palacios, an Anglican priest and long-time peace activist in the country.

19 December 1996

A note received from the Bishop of Chile

A note received from the Bishop of Chile

Yesterday, 6th November, 1996, was a memorable day in the history of Chile. The House of Deputies debated and passed a Bill establishing norms regulating the recognition and funtioning of churches, religious confessions and organizations in the country. There were 91 votes in favour, and none against.

11 November 1996

Argentina: India rights recognised after protest

Argentina: India rights recognised after protest

Following a peaceful protest by indigenous communities in Northern Argentina the Provincial government has agreed to sign an agreement to give the local communities the title deeds to their land.

06 November 1996