Guards to Accompany Groups in El Salvador
Because of death threats against 11 church leaders in El Salvador shortly after the recent peace accords, American churches are sending teams to accompany the Salvadorans on their rounds to protect them.
El Salvador’s National Council of Churches said that in the wake of services celebrating the new peace agreement, threats came from a right-wing nationalist group called the Secret Army for National Salvation.
Its message was quoted as naming Lutheran Bishop Medardo Gomez and 10 other members of the council’s board and saying they were condemned to death “as a sign that we are not disposed to hand over our fatherland into the hands of decadent communists.”
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