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by bcadmin | Jun 27, 2022 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Church in the Americas, Indigenous peoples, lead, News, Pan-Amazon Region, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network | 0 |
A week after the Brazilian police confirmed the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and of the Brazilian human rights activist Bruno Pereira in the Amazon, the region’s bishops visited Pope Francis and discussed the violence in the region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 23, 2021 | Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, REPAM | 0 |
he establishment of an Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon that involves both the laity and the clergy is a sign of a church that listens to God through the voice of his people, Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 29, 2020 | Amazon, Cardinal Pedro Barreto, Church in the Americas, indigenous communities, integral ecology, lead, News, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network | 0 |
Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto, the new leader of the Church’s largest network in the Amazon, has said his top priorities are to protect indigenous communities and to fight poverty as COVID-19 continues to ravage Latin America.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 28, 2020 | Bolivia, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Elections, News, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, REPAM | 0 |
Bolivia’s bishops want environmental concerns to play a key role when voters go to the polls to elect a new government in October.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 26, 2020 | Amazon region, Bolivia, Brazil, Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Cardinal Pedro Barreto, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Ecuador, Guyana, Latin America, News, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, Peru, REPAM, South America, Suriname, Venezuela | 0 |
Church leaders sent a strong message of support to an unprecedented virtual assembly of more than 3,000 indigenous leaders, small farmers, environmental campaigners and women from the nine countries of the Amazon region seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2020 | Amazon, Bolivia, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Drug cartels, Drug trafficking, Drugs, News, Pan-Amazon Region, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network | 0 |
Bishops in Bolivia’s Amazon region praised residents of a small town who seized a light plane, apparently owned by drug traffickers, that had violated their ban on landing at the local airstrip.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 19, 2020 | Amazon region, Brazil, Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Ecuador, Environment Ecology, News, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, Peru, REPAM | 0 |
Catholic leaders warn that as the coronavirus pandemic spreads into the Amazon basin, the region may face a “humanitarian and environmental tragedy.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 17, 2020 | Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, covid, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Pan-Amazon Region, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network | 0 |
In early May, 67 bishops and priests from the Amazon region published an open letter, asking for more attention from federal and state governments as well as state and federal legislation for the disease in the region.
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