Ignacio Ellacuria, Segundo Montes, Armando Lopez, Ignacio Martin Baro, Joaquin Lopez y Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, six Roman Catholic priests, as well as a maid, Julia Elba Ramos and her daughter, Celina Mariceth Ramos, were murdered November 1989 by right- wing armed forces operating under the El Salvadorian government. (English Churchman).

Ten clergymen were murdered and their churches destroyed in fighting between government and militia-backed by former government officials in the summer of 1999 in and near Brazzaville, Congo.