Oscar Romero

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**Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez** (15 Agosti 1917– 24 Machi 1980) alikuwa askofu mkuu wa Kanisa Katoliki huko San Salvador, nchini El Salvador kuanzia tarehe 21 Juni 1970 hadi kifodini chake.

Alipinga serikali kuhusu ufukara wa umati, dhuluma, mauaji na unyanyasaji katika jamii.

Baada ya vitisho mbalimbali, Romero aliuawa wakati anapoadhimisha Misa . Ingawa hakuna aliyehukumiwa kwa kumuua, kamati ya Umoja wa Mataifa imethibitisha kwamba aliuawa kwa agizo la mwanasiasa wa mrengo wa kulia Roberto D'Aubuisson. Hatimaye mnamo Oktoba 2018 mahakama imeagiza mhusika mmojawapo akamatwe ingawa haijulikani yuko wapi, isipokuwa kwamba ameshahama El Salvador.

Kwa heshima yake, mwaka 2010, Mkutano Mkuu wa UM ulitangaza tarehe 24 Machi kuwa "Siku ya Kimataifa ya Haki za Kujua Ukweli kuhusu Uvunjaji wa Haki za Binadamu na ya Hadhi ya Wahanga" (International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims).  

Papa Fransisko alimtangaza mwenye heri tarehe 23 Mei 2015 na mtakatifu tarehe 14 Oktoba 2018. 

Anaheshimiwa na Wakristo kadhaa wa madhehebu mengine pia kama mfiadini.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe ya kifodini chake.

## Tazama pia
*Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
*Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
*Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
*Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

## Tanbihi
## Marejeo ya Kiswahili
* Pd. Leandry Kimario, O.F.M.Cap. - Mfahamu Mtakatifu Somo Wako - Maisha ya Watakatifu wa Kila Siku pamoja na Watakatifu Wafransisko - Toleo la pili - Dar es Salaam 2021, uk. 87-88

## Viungo vya nje
*http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bromeroy.html
*http://beatificacionromero.org/  the official website for Archbishop Romero's cause for beatification (scheduled for May 23, 2015)]
*the Romero Trust
*ctu.edu , the Chicago area-based Catholic Theological Union's (CTU) Romero Scholars Program 
*the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) prayer, composed by Bishop Kenneth Untener of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saginaw, for use in a 1979 homily by Detroit's Cardinal John Dearden for departed priests, but allegedly attributed to (but never spoken by) Archbishop Romero; can be used as a prayer for his cause or to him
*the official YouTube channel for his beatification
*a YouTube video called "The Last Journey of Oscar Romero"
*SUPER MARTYRIO, a blog "about the martyrdom" (of Romero)
*Collection of Romero's homilies and meditations
*Remembering Archbishop Oscar Romero  (several contemporary and memorial articles)
*Article on Romero , contains picture of Lentz icon
*"Learn from History", 31st Anniversary of the Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, The National Security Archive
*Romero A description of the pursuit of justice for Óscar Romero
*El Salvador Marks Archbishop Oscar Romero's Murder by *BBC News*
*How we killed Archbishop Romero Interviews with Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia and others
*Witnessing massacre of Romero's funeral  Video footage and pictures of the massacre in front of the Cathedral.
*Fundación Monseñor Romero Monsignor Romero Foundation website.
*Westminster Abbey: Óscar Romero
*Archbishop Oscar Romero: A Shepherd's Diary  Archbishop Romero's diary in English. It covers the time between March 31, 1978, and March 20, 1980. "Romero's awareness of the historic importance of what was happening in the Church of San Salvador impelled him to maintain this other and more personal record of his pastoral activities."