Rcovering the wisdom of Archbishop Romero for our time. A joint CAFOD Leeds and Leeds Diocesan Justice and Peace day with Rt.Rev. Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds Bishop Arthur will share his experiences of being in El Salvador for the 30th anniversary of Archbishop Romero’s martyrdom. We will then explore how we can stand ‘Arm [...]
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February 12, 2010
Romero Mass 24th March 2010 7pm at St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham
On 24th March 2010 Bishop William Kenney will be presiding at the first Mass to mark the anniversary of Archbishop Oscar Romero’s death to be held in the Archdiocese of Birmingham. This year sees the 30th anniversary of Archbishop Romero’s assassination. The Mass will coincide with Archbishop Longley’s visit to El Salvador with CAFOD to [...]
November 10, 2009
El Salvador: Solidarity shines through disaster
The sun shone brightly yesterday for the first time in almost a week and, with the sun, the rescue efforts have got into full swing. As the day advanced the full picture of the damage and destruction caused by the torrential rails over the weekend was exposed, with new discoveries of isolated villages where whole [...]
June 15, 2008
El Salvador: Blessed are the poor…
Our visit to El Salvador has come all too quickly to an end. It is a small but complex country: a place the size of Wales but where people in the capital have almost no awareness of what happens in the countryside. The most densely populated country in Latin America – but from which 100 [...]
June 15, 2008
El Salvador: The post-war generation
Just when we thought that Guarjila was the end of the world, we found ourselves in places even more remote and even closer to the hills that marked the Honduran border. The views were breathtaking, the inclines heart-quaking and the roads bone-shaking. Arcatao, like Guarjila, was a town that had been deserted because of the [...]
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