San Salvador - The martyred Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, whose 1980 assassination came to symbolise death-squad terror during El Salvador's civil war, is moving closer to beatification, a step on the way to sainthood, church officials said yesterday.
Romero, who broke church silence on the war by denouncing right-wing death squads murdering suspected supporters of Marxist rebels, was gunned down while celebrating Mass on March 24th, 1980.