Romero Page #5

to live as they do.

The mission of the Church ...

is to identify itself

with the poor ...

and to join with them in their

struggle for justice.

By so doing, the Church

finds it's own salvation.

The new government is riddled

with communists.

The Priests are

working with the guerrillas.

All the unions

are infiltrated.

Never feel guilty for having

fought these subversive.

They have declared war

on our way of life.

Those who fight them, they will

be national heroes.

I hope that this call

of the Church ...

does not further harden the hearts

of the rich and the powerful ...

but will move them to

conversion.

You are the principle protagonist

in this hour of change.

On you depends in

great part ...

the end of violence.

There is no clinging to

our feudal past.

This is a new age...

an age in which

all God's children...

may live in peace,

freedom and dignity.

I like to make an appeal

in a special way ...

to the men in the army.

Brothers ...

each one of you

is one of us..

We are the same people.

The farmers and peasants

that you killed ...

are your own brothers

and sisters.

When you hear the words

of a man ...

telling you to kill ...

Think instead in the words of God.

"Thou shall not kill".

No soldier is obliged to

obey an order ...

contrary to the law of

God.

In His name...

and in the name of our

tormented people ...

who had suffered so much ...

and whose laments

cry out to heaven...

I implore you ...

I beg you ...

I order you ...

Stop the repression.

Archbishop Romero was murdered

March 24, 1980.

He had spoken

the disturbing truth.

Many chose

not to listen.

As a result,

between 1980 and 1989,...

more than 60,000

Salvadorans were killed.

But the struggle for peace

and freedom,...

justice and

dignity goes on.

I often been threatened with death.

If they kill me ...

I shall rise

in the Salvadoran people.

Let my blood be

a seed of freedom ...

in the sign that,

hope will soon be reality.

A Bishop will die ...

but the Church of God ...

which is the people ...

will never perish.

Subtitle by George M.

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