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- Title
- Christian Fundamentalists In San Salvador
- Date
- 1984-03-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Civilians listen while a Christian evangelical speaks about God and the Bible in Parque La Libertad, San Salvador, El Salvador, March 1, 1984. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war between successive authoritarian regimes, backed by the United States, and the guerrilla coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN. The conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Daily life; Religion
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0295_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96423
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1984 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Fourth Anniversary Of Archbishop Óscar Romero's Assassination In San Salvador
- Date
- 1984-03-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An elderly woman is helped into a Roman Catholic church by family members on the fourth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Óscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D'Aubuisson.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Activism; Human rights violations; Death squads; Óscar Romero; Roberto D'Aubuisson
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0106_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96234
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1984 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Fourth Anniversary Of The Killing Of Archbishop Óscar Romero
- Date
- 1984-03-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A woman lights a votive candle on the fourth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Óscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D'Aubuisson. The martyred Romero was officially canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in 2018.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Activism; Human rights violations; Death squads; Óscar Romero; Roberto D'Aubuisson
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0107_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96235
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1984 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Religious Procession In Perquín, El Salvador
- Date
- 1983-10-23
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An altar with a statue of Jesus Christ is carried in a religious procession through the streets in Perquín, Morazán department, El Salvador, October 23, 1983. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war between successive authoritarian regimes, backed by the United States, and the guerrilla coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Daily life; Religion; Roman Catholic Church
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0128_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96256
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Catholic Priest Spekas With FPL Officers In La Reina, Chalatenango
- Date
- 1983-02-04
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Father Renato Pellachin, an Italian Franciscan priest, left, speaks with leftist guerrilla officials from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, center and right, in La Reina, El Salvador, February 4, 1983. During the twelve-year civil war, the Catholic Church in El Salvador often condemned the violence and oppression perpetrated by the authoritarian regime, with some members of the clergy sharing guerrilla sympathies.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Liberation theology; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0174_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96302
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Salvadoran Army Fly Over Morazán Department In A U.S. Supplied Helicopter
- Date
- 1984-10-23
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A United States-supplied Salvadoran army helicopter with two M-60 machine guns flies over rural terrain in Morazán department, El Salvador, October 23, 1984. The helicopter flight was part of a mission to deliver a Catholic priest to the municipality of Perquin. Over the course of the twelve-year civil war, the United States sent more than $6 billion to the Salvadoran government in economic and military aid.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; United States foreign policy; Military aid; Cold War; Religion
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_nb_0022_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96150
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Episcopal Bishops Conference Of El Salvador Meet At A Press Conference
- Date
- 1983-03-25
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Clerical members of the Episcopal Bishops Conference of El Salvador meet at a press conference to discuss the visit of Pope John Paul ll to El Savador two weeks prior, San Salvador, El Salvador, March 25, 1983. The clerics are left to right: unknown, Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, center, Monsignor Marco René Revelo, Monsignor José Eduardo Alvarez, and right, Monsignor Oscar Barahona Castillo. The Pope’s visit to Central America highlighted the conflicts between the Vatican and followers of liberation theology within the Church, and presented the newly-appointed Archbishop Rivera y Damas as a progressive caught within a site of Cold War tensions.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Liberation theology; Cold War; Arturo Rivera y Damas; Pope John Paul II
- Country
- El Salvador
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas; Monsignor Marco René Revelo; Monsignor José Eduardo Alvarez; Monsignor Oscar Barahona Castillo
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0073_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96540
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Catholic Priest Speaks With FPL Officers In La Reina, Chalatenango
- Date
- 1983-02-04
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Father Renato Pellachin, an Italian Franciscan priest, left, speaks with leftist guerrilla officials from the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, FPL, center and right, in La Reina, El Salvador, February 4, 1983. During the twelve-year civil war, the Catholic Church in El Salvador often condemned the violence and oppression committed by the authoritarian regime, with some members of the clergy sharing guerrilla sympathies.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Marxism-Leninism; Socialism; Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL)
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0054_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96521
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Monsignor Rivera y Damas On Palm Sunday
- Date
- 1982-04-04
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas, center, leads a procession on Palm Sunday in San Salvador, El Salvador, April 4, 1982. Rivera y Damas was named Archbishop in February of 1983 after the post was left unfilled following the March 1980 assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero. RIvera y Damas was similarly outspoken in denouncing injustice and crimes committed by the state and he led the Church as a monitor in the country’s 1992 UN-backed peace process.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Liberation theology; Arturo Rivera y Damas
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0019_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96486
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1982 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Memorial Service For U.S. Churchwomen Killings
- Date
- 1983-12-02
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An unidentified member of the United States clergy offers communion on the third anniversary of the killing of four U.S. churchwomen in La Libertad, El Salvador, December 2, 1983. On December 2, 1980, Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline nun Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan were abducted, sexually abused, and executed near the airport in San Salvador by soldiers of the National Guard. The case figured prominently in debate in the United States Congress over whether El Salvador should continue to receive military aid. Several Salvadoran military officials, including then-head of the National Guard General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and then-Minister of Defense General José Guillermo García, were later found to have “assisted or otherwise participated in” attempts to cover up the killings.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Human rights violations; Trials; Religion; United States foreign policy; Military aid; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; José Guillermo García
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0179_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96646
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Anniversary Of Archbishop Romero's Assasination
- Date
- 1984-03-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A woman holds a picture of Archbishop Óscar Romero on the fourth anniversary of his assassination, San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D’Aubuisson. The martyred Romero was officially canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in 2018.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Liberation theology; Human rights violations; Death squads; Óscar Romero
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0182_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96649
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1984 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Mothers Of The Disappeared Protest On Anniversary Of Archbishop Romero's Death
- Date
- 1984-03-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Members of the organization Comadres protest on the anniversary of Archbishop Óscar Romero's death in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Comadres is a committee of mothers and relatives of prisoners, the disappeared and the politically assassinated of El Salvador. It was established in December 1977 with the help of Archbishop Óscar Romero. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D’Aubuisson.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Activism; Human rights violations; Desaparecidos; Death squads; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Archbishop Óscar Romero; Roberto D’Aubuisson
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0184_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96651
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1984 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Mothers Of The Disappeared Protest On Anniversary Of Archbishop Romero's Death
- Date
- 1984-03-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Members of the organization Comadres protest on the anniversary of Archbishop Óscar Romero's death in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Comadres is a committee of mothers and relatives of prisoners, the disappeared and the politically assassinated of El Salvador. It was established in December 1977 with the help of Archbishop Óscar Romero. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D’Aubuisson.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Activism; Human rights violations; Desaparecidos; Death squads; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Archbishop Óscar Romero; Roberto D’Aubuisson
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0185_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96652
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1984 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Mothers Of The Disappeared Protest On Anniversary Of Archbishop Romero's Death
- Date
- 1984-03-24
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Members of the organization Comadres protest on the anniversary of Archbishop Óscar Romero's death in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Comadres is a committee of mothers and relatives of prisoners, the disappeared and the politically assassinated of El Salvador. It was established in December 1977 with the help of Archbishop Óscar Romero. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D’Aubuisson.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Activism; Human rights violations; Desaparecidos; Death squads; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Archbishop Óscar Romero; Roberto D’Aubuisson
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0186_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96653
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1984 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Woman At Memorial Service For U.S. Churchwomen Killings
- Date
- 1983-12-02
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An unidentified woman attends a memorial service on the third anniversary of the killing of four United States churchwomen in La Libertad, El Salvador, December 2, 1983. On December 2, 1980, Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline nun Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan were abducted, sexually abused, and executed near the airport in San Salvador by soldiers of the National Guard. The case figured prominently in debate in the United States Congress over whether El Salvador should continue to receive military aid. Several Salvadoran military officials, including then-head of the National Guard General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and then-Minister of Defense General José Guillermo García, were later found to have “assisted or otherwise participated in” attempts to cover up the killings.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Human rights violations; Trials; Religion; United States foreign policy; Military aid; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; José Guillermo García
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0176_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96643
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Woman At Memorial Service For U.S. Churchwomen Killings
- Date
- 1983-12-02
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An unidentified woman attends a memorial service on the third anniversary of the killing of four United States churchwomen in La Libertad, El Salvador, December 2, 1983. On December 2, 1980, Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline nun Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan were abducted, sexually abused, and executed near the airport in San Salvador by soldiers of the National Guard. The case figured prominently in debate in the United States Congress over whether El Salvador should continue to receive military aid. Several Salvadoran military officials, including then-head of the National Guard General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and then-Minister of Defense General José Guillermo García, were later found to have “assisted or otherwise participated in” attempts to cover up the killings.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Human rights violations; Trials; Religion; United States foreign policy; Military aid; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; José Guillermo García
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0177_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96644
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Mothers Of The Disappeared Protest On Anniversary Of Archbishop Romero's Death
- Date
- 1984-03-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Members of the organization Comadres protest on the anniversary of Archbishop Óscar Romero's death in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1984. Comadres is a committee of mothers and relatives of prisoners, the disappeared and the politically assassinated of El Salvador. It was established in December 1977 with the help of Archbishop Óscar Romero. Archbishop Romero spoke out against the increasing violence and economic inequality sustained by the Salvadoran state regime and was murdered during mass on March 24, 1980 by a right-wing death squad under the orders of Roberto D’Aubuisson.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Activism; Human rights violations; Desaparecidos; Death squads; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Archbishop Óscar Romero; Roberto D’Aubuisson
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0212_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96679
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1984 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Memorial Service For U.S. Churchwomen Killings
- Date
- 1983-12-02
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An unidentified member of the United States clergy addresses a memorial service on the third anniversary of the killing of four U.S. churchwomen in La Libertad, El Salvador, December 2, 1983. On December 2, 1980, Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline nun Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan were abducted, sexually abused, and executed near the airport in San Salvador by soldiers of the National Guard. The case figured prominently in debate in the United States Congress over whether El Salvador should continue to receive military aid. Several Salvadoran military officials, including then-head of the National Guard General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and then-Minister of Defense General José Guillermo García, were later found to have “assisted or otherwise participated in” attempts to cover up the killings.
- Subject
- Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Human rights violations; Trials; Religion; United States foreign policy; Military aid; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova; José Guillermo García
- Country
- El Salvador
- Local Identifier
- elsalvador_ct_0178_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96645
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Religious Festival In Chichicastenango, Guatemala
- Date
- 1982-05-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Indigenous Maya men and women kneel in prayer during a traditional Roman Catholic ceremony in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982. Catholicism was introduced to Guatemala during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities throughout the country into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Syncretism
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0062_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96911
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1982 Robert Nickelsberg
- Title
- Religious Festival In Chichicastenango, Guatemala
- Date
- 1982-05-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- An indigenous Maya man dressed as Spanish conquistador with a horse's head participates in a religious procession in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982. Catholicism was introduced to Guatemala during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities throughout the country into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Syncretism
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0063_web.tif
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96912
- Rights statement
- Copyright 1982 Robert Nickelsberg