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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
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.
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.
The culture of El Salvador is a Central American culture nation influenced by the clash of ancient Mesoamerica and medieval Iberian Peninsula. Salvadoran culture is influenced by Native American culture (Lenca people, Cacaopera people, Maya peoples, Pipil people) as well as Latin American culture (Latin America, Hispanic America, Ibero-America).
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 ...
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 ]