Cardinal Cláudio Hummes dies in Brazil; he inspired the pope to pick the name ‘Francis’
Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, the former archbishop of São Paulo, died on July 4 from lung cancer at the age of 87.
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by bcadmin | Jul 5, 2022 | Brazil, Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Church in the Americas, College of Cardinals, lead, News, Obituary, São Paulo | 0 |
Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, the former archbishop of São Paulo, died on July 4 from lung cancer at the age of 87.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2021 | Archbishop Jose Gomez, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis joined six other prelates — including Archbishop Jose Gomes of Los Angeles and cardinals from Mexico, Brazil and El Salvador — in a public service ad in which he called vaccination against COVID-19 “an act of love.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 17, 2021 | Amazon region, Bishop Robert J. McElroy, Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Climate change, Global warming, News, REPAM | 0 |
Less than a week before the U.S.-sponsored Leaders Summit on Climate, environmental and religious leaders said they are worried about talks on how to preserve the region and are asking government officials from the U.S. and the Amazon to look at kindly at the rainforest and its peoples.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 16, 2020 | Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Cardinal Pedro Barreto, Church in the Americas, COVID-19, lead, News, Pan-Amazon Region, REPAM, Synod of Bishop on the Amazon | 0 |
Earlier this week it was announced that Cardinal Pedro Barreto, who was among the chief architects of last year’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, would be taking charge of the Catholic Church’s leading entity dedicated to protecting the Pan-Amazonian region.
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 | 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.”
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