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10th Anniversary Celebration of Fundación Cristosal!!! As news and photos come in, we will post them. Check back here regularly.

• Monument to Volunteers Dedicated on Sunday 28 February

• Videos of Holy Eucharist, Richard Bower's farewell speech and dedication of obelisk

Ordinations — Bishop Martín Barahona ordained four people on the Feast of the Epiphany. Go here for a report (from Co-Latino, in Spanish). Cristosal Executive Director, Richard Bower, preached at the liturgy. For photographs taken by IAES Communications Officer, Susana Barrera, go here.

Report on Santa Maria Virgen — Go here for a report on how the congregation is faring, written by Paul Pyzowski of Saint Mary's, Newton, MA

Update 4 — Brian Sellers-Peterson of Episcopal Relief and Development has shared with Cristosal some short videos of his visit last week to Verapaz, the site of the boulder slide from the cone of Chinchontepec.

Update 3 with photographs of the aftermath of the storm, 11 November 2009

Update 2 on the aftermath of the storm that ravaged central El Salvador, Monday 9 November 2009.

URGENT! Hurricane Ida floods Bajo Lempa, causes mudslides in San Vicente on Sunday 8 November 2009. Please contribute to Cristosal to help with the churches' responses to the needy. Go here for press release of 8 November 2009.