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... > social science subjects > sociology > social change > activism and social justice > political and social movements (Latin America and Caribbean) > Oscar Romero
... > contexts > population characteristics > socioeconomic factors > social change > activism and social justice > political and social movements (Latin America and Caribbean) > Oscar Romero
... > social science subjects > sociology > social change > activism and social justice > religious/spiritual movements > Oscar Romero
... > contexts > population characteristics > socioeconomic factors > social change > activism and social justice > religious/spiritual movements > Oscar Romero

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Oscar Romero  

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  • On March 24, 1980, while delivering his homily in the chapel of the Divina Providencia Hospital, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, was shot and killed at the altar by a right-wing assassin. Romero's martyrdom came in the midst of terrible social and political strife that had been brewing in El Salvador for almost a century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Romero, Oscar (1917–1980)]

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