Amazon region Archives

Brazilian church campaign draws attention to threats against advocates

Jul 29, 2020

With the objective of giving more visibility to the increased violence against those who defend social and environmental rights, Brazil’s Catholic Church has launched the “Life by a Thread” campaign.

By Lise Alves

Brazilian Church says ‘Amazonize yourself’ as region faces COVID-19, deforestation

Jul 29, 2020

As deforestation increases in the Amazon and the COVID-19 coronavirus spreads throughout the region, the Brazilian Church has decided to create a campaign to raise awareness on the need to stop the destruction of the rainforest and its peoples.

By Eduardo Campos Lima

‘We will live and die with you,’ cardinal tells virtual Amazon assembly

Jul 26, 2020

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.

By Mary Durran

Brazil’s Yanomami ask OAS for help keeping out miners, COVID-19

Jun 24, 2020

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.

By Lise Alves

Amazon missionary says health care system collapsing under COVID-19

Jun 3, 2020

It’s a paradox that the ancestral guardians of the world’s lungs now “lack oxygen to survive,” says one missionary to the Amazon region, which has been hard hit by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

By Inés San Martín

In Brazil, lay missioners see effects of environmental disasters

May 25, 2020

Deep in the Amazon, a perfect storm of environmental issues came to the attention of the world through a series of fires in the rainforest that lasted from August through October.

By Vicki Armour-Hileman