{"id":11728,"date":"2025-02-17T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedsjp.org.uk\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:47:05","slug":"17-feb-excavating-hope-the-2025-romero-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/2025\/02\/17\/17-feb-excavating-hope-the-2025-romero-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Feb – EXCAVATING HOPE \u2013 THE 2025 ROMERO LECTURE on 13 MARCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\nBy Joe Burns, Commission Member<\/em>

We are delighted that SPARK Social Justice, our project working with younger Catholics, working in partnership with Leeds Trinity University<\/strong>, will support a Leeds presentation of the 2025 Romero Lecture<\/strong>. It will take place at the new city centre campus of the university, which is on Trevelyan Square, just off Boar Lane in central Leeds, on Thursday 13 March at 7pm<\/strong>.

\n\"excavating\nLuis Orlando P\u00e9rez Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> is a Mexican Jesuit currently studying for a PhD at University College, London. He has organised seminars on human rights advocacy strategies for sexual torture, extrajudicial executions, and enforced disappearances. He has conducted workshops on victims’ rights and legal guidance for the Enlaces Nacionales network, which comprises 72 groups seeking missing persons in 25 states of Mexico. He has also provided assistance to indigenous communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca and peasant communities in Coahuila affected by resource dispossession.

In his talk he will relate all these experiences to the life of St Oscar Romero.

ALL are welcome.<\/strong>

BOOK NOW<\/a>

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