Father Manuel Acosta, professor of theology at El Salvador s Jose Simeón Cañas Central American University, speaks with seminarians Dec. 14, 2020 in San Ignacio, El Salvador. Father Acosta, as a theologian, was a teacher and later a colleague to three priests who were assassinated in El Salvador within the last three years. He wants civil and church authorities do more to investigate the crimes. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos) Jan. 13, 2020 Catholic News Service CHALATENANGO, El Salvador In his 28 years as a priest in El Salvador, Father Manuel Acosta has witnessed his share of violence. He lived through the killings of Catholic clergy, men and women religious, catechists and countless lay ministers persecuted during the country s civil conflict in the 1980s. He has also lived through decades of gang aggression against El Salvador s poor.
U.S. church aid to seminary helps continue work of slain Salvadoran rector
Father Ricardo Cortez was assassinated Aug. 6, 2020, and his murder remains unsolved
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He slept surrounded by philosophy and was assassinated Truths, certainties, Father Ricardo Cortez wrote in a diagram of the metaphysical description of the concept of a person with definitions that he, as the rector of the St. Oscar Romero Seminary, had sketched in Spanish and Italian.
In another diagram posted near his bed, he sketched God in relation to humanity, along with a stick figure of a crucified Jesus, explaining common dimensions of those who believe in God.
A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Intipucá in El Salvador on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -87.975° West, latitude 12.7017° North, depth = 53.34 km. The temblor was reported at 17:23:43 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/12/20 / 2020-12-12 17:23:43 / December 12, 2020 @ 5:23 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.34 km (33 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000cqls. Event ids that are associated: us7000cqls. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corinto, San Miguel, Puerto El Triunfo. Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 po