Brazilian Church Provides Aid to Yanomami, Warns of “Genocide”
The Yanomami people of Brazil face life-threatening levels of starvation and disease, say Church leaders carrying out relief efforts.
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Tag: Amazon
Catholics in the Amazon Pin Hopes on COP15 Biodiversity Conference
Catholic environmental activists in the Amazon hope COP15 proposals will favor the forest and the people who live there.
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Amazon Catholic Leaders: Indigenous Peoples Must Be Protected
Death of a man who was thought to be the last of his tribe in the Amazon basin raises concerns about disappearance of Indigenous cultures.
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Bishops Living in Amazon Ask COP26 for Actions to Save Planet
Bishops of the Amazon are asking world leaders at COP26 for urgent and courageous commitments to combat climate change and protect the Amazon.
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Latin American Bishops to Hear from Indigenous Communities
CELAM meeting is an opportunity for Latin America’s Indigenous peoples to highlight their role within the church and society.
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Brazil Sees Rapid Rise in Land Conflicts, Catholic Agency Reports
Land disputes in Brazil intensify under President Jair Bolsonaro, and involve more than 80,000 families, many of whom are of indigenous people.
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Brazil’s Yanomami Ask OAS for Help Keeping Out Miners, COVID-19
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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In Amazon, Peru church leaders seek to provide oxygen for sick
WEB-ONLY: In Iquitos and Pucallpa, prices of oxygen, medicine and safety gear have shot up because...
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Bishops in Amazon urge Peru to guard indigenous needs during pandemic
WEB-ONLY: Social inequalities leave the weakest more vulnerable to COVID-19, they wrote LIMA, Peru...
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Catholic leaders urge governments to protect indigenous during pandemic
WEB-ONLY: Many indigenous people in South Americalive in remote areas far from medical facilities...
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Amazon Synod Gives Voice to the Forest and its People
Assembly addresses key issues for Pope Francis: Care of creation and cry of the poor and the...
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Church Holds Synod on the Amazon and Its People
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: Historic synod looks at ministry, mission, ecology and indigenous rights and...
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