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September 26, 2019

Saving the Amazon: A fight for life

Shanenawa people dance during a festival to celebrate nature and ask for an end to the burning of the Amazon, in the indigenous village of Morada Nova near Feijo, Brazil.

MANAUS, Brazil -- For Enock Barroso Tenente, what’s at stake at the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon is life as he knows it.

Published in Amazon Synod
September 26, 2019

Violence against indigenous in Brazil on the rise

A member of the Tembe indigenous tribe, which is facing a conflict with illegal loggers on its land, holds his gun in Teko-haw indigenous village near Paragominas, Brazil, Sept. 9, 2019. A report released Sept. 24 from the Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council shows the number of indigenous murdered last year increased by more than 20% in comparison to 2017.

SAO PAULO -- Less than two weeks before the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon was scheduled to begin at the Vatican, the Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council reported that the number of indigenous land invasions and indigenous murdered in Brazil in 2018 soared.

Published in International