NCR: National Catholic Reporter, The Independent Catholic Newsweekly - Special Reprint: The Church Under Seige [Siege] in El Salvador, Articles from the December 1989 issues of NCR (The 1989 El Salvador Conflict)

Kansas City, MO: National Catholic Reporter, 1989. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Offered is "The Church Under Seige [Siege] in El Salvador" (also referred as "The 1989 El Salvador Conflict" when ordering more copies on the last page) published by the National Catholic Reporter out of Kansas City, Missouri. A large folded newsprint publication, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 16" and contains 12 pages. Containing articles from the December 1989 issues of National Catholic Reporter, the contents include: A call to service and a call to martyrdom: Slain Jesuits helped make El Salvador a frontline of faith (on the massacre on November 16, 1989 of six Jesuit priests and two others, the caretaker's wife and daughter, at Central American University - UCA El Salvador - in San Salvador; the front cover contains six portrait photos of the Jesuits); Army uses rebel offensive to crack down on church (with photo of the funeral procession on November 19, 1989 for the slain Jesuit priests); Working with the poor makes many military targets (with photo: "San Salvador Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas and others view the bodies of those slain in El Salvador Nov. 16"); U.S. nationwide reactions protest involvement in, aid to Salvador (with photo); Jesuits mobilize to change [U.S.] Salvador policy (with photo); Weep not for [Jesuit Father] Ignacio Ellacuria, but for ourselves (with his photo at Loyola University in 1986); El Salvador: Getting into trouble in the name of Jesus Christ; U.S. taxpayer money is being used to kill priests and it must stop now. With three gruesome, full-color photographs from the November 16, 1989 massacre of the six Jesuit priests (Ignacio Ellacuria, Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, Amando Lopez, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Segundo Montes, and Juan Ramon Moreno) and mother and daughter (Julia Elba Ramos and her daughter, Celina Ramos). Pages lightly age-toned, overall Fine..