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by 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 3, 2020 | Brazil, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News, Pan-Amazon Region, REPAM | 0 |
According to the Archbishop of Manus in Brazil, the official figures of coronavirus deaths “are doubtful,” noting a huge rise in funerals in his archdiocese.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 1, 2020 | Amazon, Catholic, Church in the Americas, COVID-19, indigenous communities, lead, Mauricio Lopez, News, Pope Francis, REPAM | 0 |
According to the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM), the people of the Amazon region are more at risk to COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, due to the lack of proper educational system and to the inaccessibility to adequate hygienic and sanitary services.
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