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Jesuit Network Study Highlights Resistance to Mining in Honduras

A Jesuit-sponsored study in northern Honduras found that the environmental destruction caused by mining permeates all areas of Honduran life—and also that resistance on the part of local communities is yielding results, empowering communities to reach for a different model of economic development and environmental stewardship.
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Spanish Court Sentences Salvadoran Colonel to 133 Years for Jesuit Murders

A national court in Spain sentenced a former Salvadoran colonel, Inocente Orlando Montano, to more than 133 years in prison for the murders of five of six Jesuit priests and two laywomen were killed in El Salvador on November 16, 1989.
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Spanish Court Begins Trial of Former Salvadoran Officer for 1989 Murder of Jesuits and Lay Women

The trial for the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests—Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J., Amando López, S.J., Joaquín López y López, S.J., Juan Ramón Moreno, S.J., Segundo Montes, S.J., and their housekeeper and her daughter, Elba Julia Ramos and Celina Maricet Ramos, will begin today in Madrid, Spain.