In 1980, an archbishop was assassinated while celebrating Mass to silence his voice
Archbishop Óscar Romero was silenced in 1980 for his vocal defense of the poor, an assassination that shocked the world and ignited a decade of civil unrest in El Salvador.
On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was shot while celebrating Mass in a small hospital chapel in San Salvador. A champion of the oppressed, Romero used his weekly radio sermons to denounce the violence and social injustice plaguing his country during the lead-up to the Salvadoran Civil War.
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