Church in Brazil Shelters Victims of Mudslides
The Church organizes aid campaign, shelters people who lost their homes in mudslides caused by Brazil’s worst storms in the last 70 years.
Read MorePosted by Catholic News Service | Feb 17, 2022 | Departments, News
The Church organizes aid campaign, shelters people who lost their homes in mudslides caused by Brazil’s worst storms in the last 70 years.
Read MorePosted by Catholic News Service | Jun 3, 2021 | News
Land disputes in Brazil intensify under President Jair Bolsonaro, and involve more than 80,000 families, many of whom are of indigenous people.
Read MorePosted by Catholic News Service | Mar 17, 2021 | News
The Brazilian bishops’ conference and five civil society groups criticized the federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a document titled, “The People Cannot Pay With Their Lives,” the groups said it was time to end the escalation of death.
Read MorePosted by Catholic News Service | Feb 26, 2021 | News
Campaign that defends indigenous peoples, criticizes rampant femicide and condemns violence against LGBTQ draws ire of some Brazilian bishops.
Read MorePosted by Catholic News Service | Jun 24, 2020 | News
The Hutukara Yanomami Association and Brazil’s National Council for Human Rights petitioned the Organization of American States to issue a restraining order for the Brazilian government, so illegal miners and gold miners withdraw from indigenous land.
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