Archbishop Oscar Romero honoured

DALLAS: On March 21, sixty people turned out for a candlelight 
vigil in front of the Guadalupe Cathedral to remember April 24, 
1980 — the day that Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down by 
right-wing assassins in El Salvador.

Archbishop Romero delivered his homilies on radio, participants 
said, and everyone in El Salvador stopped to listen. He had just 
issued a plea, and then a demand, that the mass killing of 
innocent civilians by right-wing death squads and the Salvadoran 
military be stopped. As he delivered his next homily in the 
national cathedral, a sniper shot him through the open doors.

Three days later, despite warnings, people gathered for his 
funeral. Many were murdered in the National Plaza. Others, 
especially young people, were trucked away, never to be seen 
again.

The Committee for Economic Justice and United Voices for 
Immigrants sponsored the vigil.

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Acknowledgement: People's Weekly World