Oscar Romero

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• Oscar Romero

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Helping People

• Oscar Romero helped people by
• Trying to get equality for them
• Giving them peace from the authorities
• Helping the poor people who did not have homes
  or food.
• Supporting the guerillas in their efforts to get
  peoples rights back.

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Oscar Romero was

• born on August 15, 1917 and died on March 24,
  1980.
• christened Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez.
• a Roman Catholic priest who became Archbishop of
  El Salvador.

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Oscar Romero

• started a group that spoke out for human rights
  and the civil rights.
• was assassinated in 1980 by a right wing group
  whose leader was Roberto D Aubuisson.

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Situation in San Salvador

• The situation that people were was fighting for
  so they can be powerful.
• People did not want war but people did not care
  because they were cruel.
• People wanted equality but that did not matter to
  other people.

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What He Did

• Oscar Romero helped people by being a good
  friend.
• Oscar Romero helped people by giving people that
  did not have anything love and warmth.
• Oscar Romero was a good person because he gave
  people courage and hope.
• Oscar Romero was a very loyal person to god
  because he tried to be like him in so many ways.
• Oscar Romero helped people by fighting for them
  and sacrificing himself.

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Quotes

• We know that every effort to better society
  especially when injustice and sin are so
  ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that
  God wants, that God demands of us.

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