Six Jesuit priests were murdered in El Salvador 25 years ago. But what happened to the Catholic university where they taught? One of their friends, who went on to become its vice rector, tells the remarkable story of its survival and rebirth San salvador’s martyrs, brutally murdered on 16 November 1989 by soldiers trained in and funded by the United States, make it chillingly clear that it is not only traditional enemies of the faith or religious fanatics that persecute men and women dedicated to building the Kingdom of God. Their deaths were at the hands of a regime claiming to be democratic and inspired by Christian values. El Salvador, a tiny Central American country, had been in the grip of a bitter civil war for 10 years. Its wealth – created by the coffee trade –