... The murder in El Salvador of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero in 1980, now canonized as Saint Romero by the Catholic Church, is remembered in this chapter, along with his political stand in defense of the poor and oppressed, which made him a target. Óscar Arnulfo Romero Roberto D’Aubuisson...

... Fulgencio Batista Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes Fidel Castro carnival El Cobre ...

... and civil war often transpired in the streets: the Batista regime alternately compelled, and then cancelled, carnival; urban guerillas fomented insurrection there; in reprisal, Batista’s police killed opponents and dumped their bodies in city streets and rural roadways; Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes...

... compelled, and then cancelled, carnival; urban guerillas fomented insurrection there; in reprisal, Batista’s police killed opponents and dumped their bodies in city streets and rural roadways; Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes decried the violence in Santiago’s now sinister, near-empty streets; the funeral...

... Beginning with 1985, Kingdom Come argues that African clergy led the nation when the government incarcerated, exiled, or killed South Africa's leaders. The introduction suggests that religious activism, largely embodied by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other clergy...

... Chapter 6 captures the dynamic growth of the African Orthodox Church (AOC) in southern Africa, where it was first established on the African continent. The chapter traces the ministerial work of Daniel William Alexander, who was eventually consecrated as archbishop and primate of the African...

... of Ortega from rebel to dictator and the realities facing Nicaragua. Daniel Ortega Rosario Murillo Sergio Ramírez Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) dictatorship The murder in El Salvador of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero in 1980, now canonized as Saint Romero by the Catholic...

... On 25 April 1716, the city of Potosí received with great pomp and circumstance the newly appointed Viceroy of Peru, Fray Diego Morcillo Rubio de Auñón, who had been serving as archbishop of Charcas. Symbolizing the very body of the king himself, and in the company of the local civil...

... Assembly, Archbishop Jorge Manrique gave the women protection. They established a second picket in the Catholic newspaper Presencia with the participation of Domitila Barrios de Chungara, a leader of the Housewives Committee of Siglo XX, Espinal, and other members of the assembly, as well as other...

... Viceroy of Peru, Fray Diego Morcillo Rubio de Auñón, who had been serving as archbishop of Charcas. Symbolizing the very body of the king himself, and in the company of the local civil and ecclesiastical hierarchy, he processed through an array of triumphal arches before the assembled crowds of spectators...

... children went on a hunger strike, which began, against all political odds, during the Christmas celebrations of 1977. With the intercession of Espinal and the Human Rights Assembly, Archbishop Jorge Manrique gave the women protection. They established a second picket in the Catholic newspaper Presencia...