Pope Francis published his Post-Synodal Exhortation on the Amazon on February 12, 2020. The papal document is the fruit of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan- Amazonian Region, on the theme "Amazon: new paths for the Church and for an integral ecology." The regional Synod took place in the Vatican, October 6-27, 2019, bringing together the Roman Curia and the region's Church leadership and religious order superiors. Composed of 111 paragraphs and published originally in Spanish, �Dear Amazon' is broken up into Pope Francis' different �dreams' for the territory and concludes with a prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary.