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15 Jun 2012, 8:25 pm by immigrationprof
A central figure of the civil war in El Salvador from 1980 to 1992 is Father Oscar Romero. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 9:58 am by Immigration Prof
Big news in El Salvador is that Pope Francis has ruled that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero died as a martyr, paving the way for his beatification, the step before sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 1:23 am
[JURIST] El Salvador government officials agreed on Friday to a state investigation into the death of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero [BBC backgrounder], shot and killed in 1980. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 2:26 am
[JURIST] El Salvador defended its 1993 amnesty law in a hearing [recorded video] Wednesday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) [official website] dealing with the country's failure to investigate the 1980 murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
21 May 2018, 8:45 am by Anthony Gaughan
He was shot and killed on March 24, 1980 as he celebrated Mass at the Chapel of the Hospital de la Divina Providencia in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 9:04 am by Carrie Schimizzi
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Tuesday urged government officials in El Salvador to repeal [press release] a 1993 amnesty law that prevents any investigation [JURIST report] into killings committed during the country's 12-year civil war [PBS backgrounder], including the killing of respected Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero [BBC backgrounder, JURIST news archive]. [read post]
13 Mar 2010, 1:39 pm by Michael Perry
An excerpt: Through copious quotations from the archbishop’s sermons and letters, it becomes clear that, as Wright says: “These three themes – the dignity of the human person, the salvation of people in history and the transcendent dimension of liberation – form the heart of Romero’s spirituality, and they may be found in almost every homily that he preached as archbishop of San Salvador. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 9:06 pm
Romero, an immigrant from El Salvador, died in the Franklin County Regional jail in August, 2008, ten days after she was required by federal law to be released. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 8:40 am by Tom Smith
Óscar Romero is revered in his native El Salvador for denouncing repression. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 2:05 pm by Karen Breda
Grande’s assassination catalyzed Archbishop Oscar Romero’s fight against social injustice in El Salvador. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 11:14 am by CJLF Staff
  ICE has placed a detainer on Romero. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 9:39 am
ThorntonProvisional Measures with Regard to El Salvador in the Matter of B (Inter-Am. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 12:04 am
She'd been a human rights activist during the country's civil war, having begun to work in the Archdiocese of San Salvador in 1977, at the same time that Oscar Romero was denouncing human rights violations, and she continued in that role after Romero's assassination in 1980. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 2:24 pm
Contents include:Sección de Artículos de Investigación desde el Derecho Internacional PenalHéctor Olasolo, Justicia como memoria y derecho a la verdad frente a la política de silencio y olvido en El Salvador: Apuntes sobre la percepción de la figura de Óscar Arnulfo Romero y la experiencia de los diálogos intergeneracionales en las parroquias de la Arquidiócesis de San Salvador Sección de Ensayos de… [read post]
25 May 2019, 10:54 am by Immigration Prof
Guest blogger: Flavio Bravo, Masters in Migration Studies, graduate student, University of San Francisco Every Thursday morning, Barbara Zavala can be found in East Oakland leading a weekly food distribution to over 300 families. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 11:43 am by Jillian C. York
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.* Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso is the executive director of FORUM-Asia. [read post]