World Refugee Day 2016 Presentation

Oscar Romero

Oscar Romero was the fourth archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. His place of birth is Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador and he was born on August 15, 1917. His parents were Guadalupe de Jésus Galdámez, Santos Romero. Oscar Romero and his family were Roman Catholic. In 1930 a mass opened his mind and he was talking about being a priest at the age of 13. On the next part of his training he was sent to Rome and returned in 1943 as a priest at the age of 26 years old. His passion for speaking up for the poor was formed when his friend, Rutilio Grande, was murdered. Oscar Romero helped the poor by speaking and fighting for them and those who died and he did as much as could until he died. Romero knew that he was going to die, but he did it for the people. He made the government angry with him as he tried to speak out for those people by putting his voice on the radio and sending the Christian message of peace. Oscar Romero was assassinated during mass on March 24th 1980. He was assassinated because the government wanted him to stop sending the message of peace. It is believed that those who organised the assassination were Salvador death squads. 35 years after Oscar Romero was assassinated he was beatified by Pope Francis. By Mila References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero http://oscarromero.weebly.com/his-career-as-a-priest.html