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Month later brought out a reserve. >> when he sees what father did, assassinated. time for help. >> reporter: the archbishop emerged as a fierce critic of the u.s. backed military regime that seized power in 1979. >> translator: in just three years, six priests were killed. hundreds of people and collaborators. >> reporter: the day before he was shot, romero urged soldiers to stop killing civilians. >> translator: no soldier is obliged to obey an order that goes against god's laws. it is time to recover your conscience and obey it before an order descends. in the name of god. and in the name o...

Denounced the native el salvador. he was shot and killed in 1980 while celebrating mass. more than three decades later, moving one step closer to sainthood. romero began his religious career as a small-town priest in san miguel. he avoided politics, his personal collection of photographs reflecting the close ties to his flock. considered a conservative, he was named archbishop of san salvador in 1977, by a catholic church anxious to distance itself from leftist priests. but the murder of a friend and fellow priest grande just one month later brought you a new resolve. >> translator: when he se...

Angela merkel. he said how ejupt handles this situation would have an impact on the security of israel. and then he went on to draw a comparison with the revolution in iran and said that the situation was extremely dynamic and fluid and that led him on to directly compare what is happening in egypt with what happened in tehran in 1979. >> translator: what may develop and in fact has already developed in a number of countries, including iran itself, is that they have oppressive regimes in the form of extremist islam and certainly suppressing human rights and trampling them in the dust. they're ...