municipalities in El Salvador

LOLOTIQUE, El Salvador (CNS) -- On Easter, as thousands of Salvadorans from around the country packed into the rural town of Lolotique, Catholic ... Father Turcios, who serves in Soyapango, a city near San Salvador that suffers from gang violence, said there is much that is not yet known in Father ...

More than 130,000 devotees was recorded to have visited the pilgrimage destinations in the province which are Our Lady of Fatima in Sambulawan town, Laguindingan; Birhen sa Lourdes in Moog, Laguindingan; Divine Mercy in El Salvador City; Sipaka Heights in Talisayan; Hinuklog in Medina; and ...

The suburbs have proved an ideal landing spot — close to low-wage work around New York City and filled with illegal basement apartments. By the time Henry arrived, so many Salvadorans were living in Suffolk County that El Salvador had opened a consulate in the town of Brentwood, the only foreign ...

AN EMPLOYEE of El Salvador City Government was arrested in a drug bust Wednesday, March 28. The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Rey John Paul Abratiguin II of Poblacion, El Salvador City, yielded three sachets of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu). Senior Inspector Corrine Mae ...

Red bicycles lined up for rent in the Old Town section of Vilnius, Lithuania, echo similar bike stations in Madison, which is Vilnius' sister city. ... Along with Kanifing, sister cities include Arcatao, El Salvador; Freiburg, Germany; Vilnius, Lithuania; Camaguey, Cuba; Ainaro, East Timor; Mantova, Italy; Obhiro, ...

SAN SALVADOR: Suspected gang members in El Salvador gunned down a young priest on Thursday on his way to celebrate Holy Week festivities, police said. Father Walter Osmir Vasquez, 31, was driving on a dirt road outside the town of Lolotique, 130 kilometres east of San Salvador when gunmen cut ...

Suspected gang members in El Salvador gunned down a young priest Thursday on his way to celebrate Holy Week festivities, police said. Father Walter Osmir Vasquez, 31, was driving on a dirt road outside the town of Lolotique, 130 kilometres (80 miles) east of San Salvador when gunmen cut him off and ...

Lethbridge volunteers build homes and hope for families in El Salvador ... In little more than a week, they built secure homes for 27 impoverished families in El Salvador. ... “I say it takes a city of amazing wonderful people, like we have here in Lethbridge, to help build the village that can raise that child.”.

There are regular direct flights to El Salvador from major U.S. cities, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, and there is no need to exchange money upon ... Several of El Salvador's small colonial towns are known for signature artisanal crafts that travelers can learn during their stay.

Schey, who is also the executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, introduced the L.A. Movement for Immigrant Justice and Equity, a coalition that includes members of the City Council, mayor's office and a range of grass-roots and faith-based groups "vowing to protect TPS ...

When I told them that American teenagers often took buses or subways to get around town, Dani declared: “You have all the freedom in the world.” To them ... In El Salvador, a small country of some 6.5 million, the defense ministry has estimated that more than 500,000 Salvadorans are involved with gangs.

In Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua white maize, mostly consumed in the form of tortillas, and red or black beans are preferred, ... City (Guatemala), San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Chontales and Managua (Nicaragua), San Jose (Costa Rica) and Panama City (Panama).

Ms. Thomas returns to City with the debut of “Citizens Market,” a celebration of diversity and connection among immigrants working in a supermarket. ... a longtime New Yorker by way of El Salvador; Ciata, from Sierra Leone; and the married couple Bogdan and Morfina, New Yorkers by way of Romania.

Dozens of imprisoned Salvadoran gang members are crammed into a single jail cell 4 meters wide and 4 meters deep. They're from the Mara Salvatruchas or, MS-13, and Barrio 18, two rival gangs which government security forces here say are responsible for a new wave of murders across El Salvador.

Salvadorans will choose from eight parties to elect 84 representatives for the Legislative Assembly and Municipal Councils for the country's 262 municipalities. El Salvador's political sphere is dominated by two major parties: the right-wing Nationalist Republic Alliance (ARENA) and the left-wing FMLN, ...

Like many cities in the United States that have established foreign counterparts, Concord, New Hampshire has long been a sister city to Agua Caliente, El Salvador. Following an informative brief of VP-5's actions in support of Operation Martillo, a counter illicit trafficking operation in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of ...

More than 25 years after the end of its civil war, families in El Salvador are still searching for an estimated 3,000 children who disappeared in the fighting. The country's military has so far refused to open its archives from that period to allow an investigation into the whereabouts of children separated from ...

Alma Quinteros, 56, takes a call Feb. 12, 2018 in her Marshall, Mo., home from a fellow immigrant from El Salvador who has been allowed to legally stay in the United States since 2001 under a sliver of immigration law called Temporary Protected Status. The program is supposed to end in 2019. Many TPS ...

Vicente has only childhood memories of El Salvador. His mother migrated to L.A. County by herself in the 1970s, hoping to one day bring her children to the United States. Vicente and his two younger siblings spent their early years living with his grandparents in Santa Ana, a bustling city tucked between ...