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1. Bishops of El Salvador warn against privatizing water: (Water Crisis El Salvador); Catholic News Service SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — El Salvador's bishops urged lawmakers to discard any plans for privatizing water in the Central American country, saying the poor could not afford to ...; Created on 24 June 2018
2. Bishop Rauda: Mining is not a question of right or left, it is a question of life or death!: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Monsignor José Elías Rauda, Bishop of the Diocese Of San Vicente, at a mass officiated in the church Santa Barbara, in Sensuntepeque, Cabañas. "Mining is not a matter of left or right but of life or death, ...; Created on 10 November 2016
3. Archbishop of El Salvador reinforces the church´s position against mining: (Mining and Human Rights); During his usual Sunday press conference on April 24th, the Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, called once again on society to remain vigilant and prevent mining in El Salvador. He similarly ...; Created on 17 September 2016
4. Archbishop of El Salvador reinforces the church´s position against mining: (Mining and Human Rights); During his usual Sunday press conference on April 24th, the Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, called once again on society to remain vigilant and prevent mining in El Salvador. He similarly ...; Created on 17 September 2016
5. Archbishop of El Salvador suggests the use international mechanisms to solve dispute over mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ACAN EFE News Agency, El Salvador The Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar, suggested Sunday that the government should go to international organizations if the threat from a gold mine in Guatemala ...; Created on 10 June 2013
6. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... who had served as a military attaché to the United States during the civil war, and El Salvador’s influential archbishop, a member of the ultraconservative Opus Dei order. They persuaded the archbishop ...; Created on 23 April 2021
7. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and strong coalition. We learn that a right-wing environmental minister, Hugo Barrera, handed the water defenders an essential bit of legal strategy, and a conservative archbishop became an anti-mining ...; Created on 11 April 2021
8. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... killed in El Salvador’s civil war. It thus took a great deal of courage for the water defenders to reach out to ARENA, as well as to the ultraconservative archbishop of San Salvador, the nation’s capital, ...; Created on 05 April 2021
9. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... assassinated. These water defenders won over the most unlikely of allies, like a conservative archbishop alarmed by the dangers of cyanide. They even flew in a governor from the Philippines, who spoke ...; Created on 28 March 2021
10. Vizcaya governor asks Rody to end 2 mine operations: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... President Rodrigo Duterte he should not renew the contract of the firms to run the Didipio and Runruno mines here. In a letter to the President dated Dec. 9, 2020 and co-signed by Bayombong Catholic Bishop ...; Created on 21 January 2021
11. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... enter into force from 2021, after the parliamentary elections. The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, president of the Salvadoran Episcopal Conference, in a video posted on the ...; Created on 30 November 2020
12. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... as their leader and representative of the democratic opposition." When the Islamic State arrived in Mosul in August 2014, Mgr Najeeb Michaeel, Archbishop of Mosul, ensured the evacuation of Christians, ...; Created on 29 September 2020
13. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the bishops’ conference of Honduras published a statement in October 2018 where they note, “The greatest responsibility for this situation lies with the economic model that privileges the excessive desire ...; Created on 25 September 2020
14. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of them will have a voice, even if the last decision is made by the Government,” expressed the archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas. The head of the Salvadoran Catholic Church maintained ...; Created on 20 April 2020
15. Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement Launched: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... gold mine of Australian-Canadian transnational mining corporation Oceanagold.” Save Nueva Vizcaya was convened by various leaders and experts, including representations of Diocese of Bayombong Bishop ...; Created on 16 September 2019
16. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... reads: “The water is ours, it is not the private companies’” (Photo by author). The events speakers included the Monseñor José Elías Rauda, Bishop of San Vicente, Ana Milagro Guevara, the Environmental ...; Created on 24 August 2018
17. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); Melissa Vida : America Magazine The archbishop of San Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, points to Blessed Oscar Romero’s portrait on a shelf in his office. “Blessed Romero, is, without a doubt, a role ...; Created on 08 May 2018
18. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... outcry and played an active and fundamental role in the approval of the law. Monsignor José Luis Escobar Alas, archbishop of San Salvador, said that the law against metallic mining should not be repealed ...; Created on 07 May 2018
19. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... citizens among its ranks. In 2007, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of El Salvador asked the government to prohibit mining. The leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, which was ...; Created on 07 May 2018
20. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); ... of the risk that the law could be repealed. The archbishop of El Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, a fierce proponent of the prohibition declared during his Sunday March 25th press conference that ...; Created on 06 May 2018

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