The Vatican has announced that Monseñor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, known as the "bishop of the poor," will be beatified on May 23 in El Salvador. He was murdered by a right-wing death squad as he was giving a mass in 1980 due to his support for movements that opposed the tyrannical regime backed by the United States government. His murder was never investigated but Monseñor Romero is widely seen as a martyr in the struggle for faith and justice. Gerardo Torres reports for teleSUR.
