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Soul Talk|Soul Talk Interview with Father Roy Bourgeois Episode
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The Soul Stirrer with embodied faith in action - Father Roy Bourgeois is the founder of The School of The America’s Watch.
He served as a Naval Officer for four years before entering the seminary of the Maryknoll Missionary Order. Ordained a Catholic priest in 1972, Roy went on to work with the poor of Bolivia for five years before being arrested and forced to leave the country, then under the repressive rule of dictator and SOA grad General Hugo Banzer.
In 1980 Fr. Roy became involved in issues surrounding US policy in El Salvador after four US churchwomen--two of them friends of his--were raped and killed by Salvadoran soldiers. Roy became an outspoken critic of US foreign policy in Latin America. Since then, he has spent over four years in US federal prisons for nonviolent protests against the training of Latin American soldiers at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Fr. Roy was the recipient of the 1997 Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace Award. From 1999 to the present time, Roy has and continues to travel extensively, giving talks at universities, churches, and other groups around the country.
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