Church warns about record violence against indigenous people in Brazil
Violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil grew in 2021, reaching its highest level since 2013, according to an agency of the bishops’ conference.
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by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2022 | Amazon region, Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Church in the Americas, indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News | 0 |
Violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil grew in 2021, reaching its highest level since 2013, according to an agency of the bishops’ conference.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | Amazon region, Brazil, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, religious women | 0 |
It took just four days between the creation and the revocation of the settlement named for a U.S.-born nun intended to give 73 rural families deeds to public land in Brazil’s Amazon region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | Amazon region, Associated Press, Brazil, Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, Church in the Americas, College of Cardinals, News | 0 |
When the Archbishop of the Brazilian city of Manaus Leonardo Steiner kneels before Pope Francis on August 27, the Brazilian clergyman will make history as the first cardinal to come from the Amazon region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 30, 2022 | Amazon region, Brazil, Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, Church in the Americas, lead, News | 0 |
Announced as one of the 21 new cardinals that Pope Francis will create on August 27, Brazilian Archbishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner of Manaus is expected by many in the region to be the Amazon’s voice in the Vatican.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 23, 2022 | Amazon region, Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Church in the Americas, Indigenous peoples, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, Mining, News | 0 |
As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s allies in Congress try to pass a bill to allow mining operations in indigenous territories, Church organizations say it would adversely impact the environment and human rights in the South American country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 15, 2022 | Amazon region, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Peru | 0 |
Oil spills on opposite sides of Peru — one near Lima, the coastal capital, and the other in a remote Indigenous village in the Amazon — brought together Catholics in the two regions for simultaneous Masses Feb. 13.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | Amazon region, Brazil, catechists, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News | 0 |
Formally installing catechists and lectors into their roles as lay leaders in the church is especially important as a recognition for women and men in places like the Amazon region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2022 | Amazon region, Amazon synod, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Pope Francis, Sacraments | 0 |
Bishop Eugenio Coter is an Italian who has been a missionary in Bolivia’s Amazon region since 1991.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2021 | Amazon region, Brazil, Caritas, Church in the Americas, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, immigrants and refugees, lead, News, Vaccinations, Venezuela | 0 |
In Roraima, the Brazilian State with the second lowest rate of vaccination against COVID-19 in the country, the Church has been actively trying to raise awareness among thousands of Venezuelan immigrants who have failed to get vaccinated.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2021 | Amazon region, Brazil, Church in the Americas, COP26, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News, Pan-Amazon Region, REPAM | 0 |
Bishops from the Amazon region are asking the international community to put pressure on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to do more to protect the ecology of the vital area.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2021 | Amazon region, Catholic News Service, CELAM, Church in the Americas, Environment Ecology, Latin America, News, REPAM, synodality | 0 |
Environmental issues will have a central role when Catholic leaders gather Nov. 21-28 in Mexico City for the Sixth Ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Amazon, Amazon region, Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Pan-Amazon Region | 0 |
The newest addition to a fleet of hospital boats on the Amazon River is to be christened the Saint John XXIII, and will soon be serving patients in some of the most remote parts of Brazil.
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