Indigenous peoples

Ecuador’s president rolls back austerity measures that triggered protests
- Amazon synod, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Oct 14, 2019
Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno met with indigenous leaders and agreed to roll back austerity measures that had sparked 10 days of protests.
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Indigenous leader asks Synod to intervene with ‘New Gods’: Google, IMF, and World Bank
- Amazon synod
- Oct 14, 2019
One of the indigenous leaders participating in the Oct. 6-27 summit of bishops on the Amazon region urged Pope Francis and the Catholic Church as a whole to help them talk with “the new gods of the developed countries,” naming Google, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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A married priesthood not the real revolution in ‘ordained elders’ proposal
- Amazon synod, News Analysis
- Oct 9, 2019
German Bishop Fritz Lobinger, a 90-year-old retired missionary bishop in South Africa, has suddenly become the talk of Rome for his idea of ordaining married “elders.”
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Synod’s day one features ecology, married priests, an Amazon rite and blowback
- Amazon synod, News Analysis
- Oct 8, 2019
Monday morning brought about as clear a visual depiction of the Church as the “People of God” as you’re ever likely to witness in a Vatican setting as part of the opening of Pope Francis’s Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon.
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Pope opens synod urging bishops ‘not to kick the Holy Spirit out of the hall’
- Amazon synod
- Oct 7, 2019
Pope Francis rued what he called a tendency to see some cultures as “second-class civilizations,” which, he said, “distances us from the reality of a people and separates us from them, which is disrespect.”
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Opening Amazon synod, Pope Francis says aim is to fight fire with fire
- Amazon synod, News Analysis
- Oct 6, 2019
In response to fires that destroy, Francis on Sunday called the roughly 300 bishops and other participants in the synod to kindle a fire that saves – a fire of “daring prudence,” the pope called it, fed by the Holy Spirit.
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