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Kutztown resident Scot Guldin, a financial consultant for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, will give a presentation at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Mertztown, on Dec. 13 after the worship service at 10 a.m.
Residents of the hard-hit town of Verapaz recall a thundering roar as earth and boulders poured down Chichontepec volcano, burying homes and inhabitants. Reporting from Verapaz, El Salvador, and Mexico City -- The hill-ringed town of Verapaz is now a wasteland of fallen boulders, thigh-deep mud and broken little houses.
Floods and landslides had killed at least 130 people in El Salvador and forced 10,000 from their homes Monday after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of mountainous Central America.
International Christian groups are responding to the recent flooding and mudslides in El Salvador that has claimed at least 130 lives so far and left another 60 missing.
Floods and landslides left at least 124 people dead in El Salvador on Monday after a late-season hurricane ravaged parts of Central America and took aim for the United States.
A late-season hurricane bore down on the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico Monday after ravaging parts of Central America and killing at least 124 people in El Salvador.
Hope is fading that an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, who spent more than a dozen years as a confidential informant for local law enforcement, might gain legal status in the U.S. Unable to find work in this economy, Ernesto Gamboa says he may decide early next year to give up and return to his home country.
Civil defense officials in El Salvador have raised the death toll from rain-triggered floods and mudslides to 124, with another 60 people missing.
In El Salvador, 124 people are dead and at least 60 are missing after days of raining and flooding as Hurricane Ida passes through the region.
WOODSTOCK – It has been a long road for Carlos Leivos, who came to America from El Salvador when he was 22 years old with few contacts and a Spanish native tongue.
The death toll from flooding and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by the passage of Hurricane Ida jumped to 124 people, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said in a national radio broadcast.
Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 91 people, authorities said.
While the remnants of Hurricane Ida makes its way through the area, a Baltimore man said the rain and wind are nothing compared to the storm's true fury that he faced in Central America.
Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried the town of Verapaz Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 91 people, authorities said.
A late-season hurricane took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after helping cause flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
At least 91 people died and another 60 or more are missing after floods and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by Hurricane Ida, the government said on Sunday.
