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December 5, 2016

U.S. Priest Assassinated in Guatemala Declared a Martyr by the Vatican
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An American priest assassinated in Guatemala in 1981 has moved a step
closer to sainthood. On Friday, the Vatican declared Rev. Stanley Rother
to be a martyr. Rother was killed by a right-wing death squad in his
church rectory. He died on the same day U.S.-backed Guatemalan troops
killed 13 people and wounded 24 others in the same town where he was
shot. Stanley Rother is the first American to ever be declared a martyr
by the Catholic Church.


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