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Tanaru. (Credit: Vincent Carelli, movie Corumbiara.)

Indigenous Man of the Hole wasn’t the last member of his group, missionaries in Brazil discover

Sep 25, 2025
Eduardo Campos Lima

A Macuxi Indigenous man paints the face of another at the Caracarana Lake Regional Center in Normandia, on the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous reserve in Roraima state, Brazil, Monday, March 13, 2023. (Credit: Edmar Barros/AP.)

Suggestions for the Amazonian Rite to be concluded in July, official says

Jun 5, 2025
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV, the Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo, Bishop Robert Prevost, preaches during a Corpus Christi Mass in a stadium in Chiclayo, Peru, on June 19, 2019. (Credit: Julio Reano/AP.)

Amazon Catholics hope the new pope will protect the rain forest

May 10, 2025
Mauricio Savarese,
Steven Grattan, Associated Press

(Credit: Associação e Fraternidade São Francisco de Assis na Providência de Deus.)

A third hospital boat in the Amazon to be launched on Dec. 7

Dec 5, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

A meeting on the Church in the Amazon region took place in Manaus, Brazil, Aug. 19-22. (Credit: Brazilian Bishops' Conference.)

Amazonian Church discusses new rite, finance, and participation of women

Aug 23, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Francis meets with members of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) and the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) at the Vatican on Monday, June 3, 2024. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Top Amazon cardinal says murder of environmental activists a key concern

Jun 5, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

Security agents use a tractor to try to disperse landless occupiers of a disputed farm in the Brazilian Amazon on May 27. (Credit: Comissão Pastoral da Terra.)

Priest arrested during landless occupation of a farm in Brazil’s Amazon

Jun 3, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

Members of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference’s Integral Ecology and Mining Commission visit the Ka’apor Indigenous people in the Amazon region in December 2023. (Credit: Courtesy of Gilderlan Rodríguez.)

Church denounces threats to Brazilian Indigenous in Amazon

Mar 14, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

A year after heart-breaking images, Brazil bishops say indigenous still suffer

Feb 1, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

LatAm bishops link Amazon wildfires to deforestation, assaults on Indigenous

Dec 20, 2023
Eduardo Campos Lima

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