Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador Twenty Fifth Anniversary Part 1
Joseph Mulligan on 4 Nov 2014
In 1989 six Jesuit priests and two women were brutally assassinated at the Central American University in San Salvador by Salvadoran soldiers trained and equipped by the U.S.
With the 25th anniversary coming up on Nov. 16, Fr. Joseph E. Mulligan, S.J., who works in Nicaragua, discusses these questions: What happened? What does this mean to us? What was the theological and political context? Who were the martyrs? Why were they murdered?
He presents the martyrs as examples of active compassion, "political (organized) love," and prophetic courage; and he situates the massacre in the context of US foreign policy.
His presentation has 5 Parts; each Part is a video in this series.