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The iconic Jesus statue Monumento al Divino Salvador del Mundo, a landmark located in the country's capital, San Salvador.. According to the World Religion Database 2020, 96.68% of the population has a Christian background and 2.57% is non-religious (atheist or agnostic); 0.57% follow ethnic religions.
El Islam en El Salvador; Oficina de Divulgación Islámica, Fátimah Az-Zahra; Pedro Escalante & Abraham Daura Molina (2001), Sobre Moros y Cristianos, y otros Arabismos en El Salvador, Embajada de España en El Salvador y Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, San Salvador, ES pp. 17
The Catholic Church in El Salvador comprises only a Latin hierarchy, joint in the national episcopal conference (Conferencia Episcopal de El Salvador, CEDES), consisting of one ecclesiastical province headed by the Metropolitan archbishop (in the capital) with seven suffragan dioceses, each headed by a bishop; a military ordinariate for the ...
La Mantanza: In 1932 the Pipil and communists (mostly El Salvadorean peasants wanting land reform) started a rebellion against the El Salvadorean government and their well-trained and armed army. The government responded with the indiscriminate massacre of a conservative 30,000 Indigenous people over the course of a few days.
On March 24, 1980, during the civil war in El Salvador he was assassinated while saying Mass because of his positions regarding the government and demands to the end of the violence in the nation. In 2004 the Church in El Salvador asked for a reinvestigation of the case. [ 6 ]
There is a small Shia community in El Salvador. The country has an Islamic Library operated by the Shia community, named Fatimah Az-Zahra. The library published the first Islamic magazine in Central America: Revista Biblioteca Islámica. Additionally, they are credited with providing the first and only Islamic library dedicated to spreading ...
Las Pupusas. Traditional dish par excellence in El Salvador. Material folklore includes physical, created items, such as foods, furniture, and traditional medicine. In popular cuisine, dishes made from corn are common, including pupusas, atol shuco, tortillas, tamales, corn chicha, chilate, corn atol, torrejas, and cashew seed atol.
Santiago Nonualco is a municipality in La Paz department of El Salvador. "Nonualco" means "tribe of mutes" in the native Nahuat language, referring to the Nonoalca people who settled here around 900 CE. [1] There are three "Nonualcos" in the area, the other two are San Juan Nonualco and San Pedro Nonualco.