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Land conflicts have grown under Bolsonaro, according to Brazilian Church report
- Apr 30, 2020
Land conflicts grew in Brazil in 2019, which was President Jair Bolsonaro’s first year in office. According to the Bishops’ Conference’s Land Pastoral Commission (known as the CPT), there were 1,254 incidents in the country last year, an increase of eleven percent compared with 2018.
African bishops call for ‘binding’ international treaty on transnational corporations
- Mar 2, 2020
Catholic prelates in West Africa have called for the establishment of “legally binding instruments to regulate the activities of transnational corporations.”
Land activist murdered in Brazil after refusing to testify against Dorothy Stang’s successor
- Dec 31, 2019
Marcio Rodrigues dos Reis’s murder on Dec. 4 in the Amazonian city of Anapu was the 15th case of a peasant being killed in the region due to land conflicts since 2015, according to the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), which is affiliated with Brazil’s National Bishops’ Conference.
Bishops in South Africa oppose taking Church land for redistribution
- Sep 27, 2018
Leftist political parties have also set their eyes on land owned by the Catholic Church in South Africa.
Amid debates on land, South Africa’s black population sees bias
- Jun 1, 2018
A debate about land redistribution in South Africa is heating up, with the country’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, saying it is right and fitting to “expropriate land without compensation” in order to correct what he has described as “a historical wrong” that was done to black people.
Brazilian priest, associate of slain religious sister, arrested in Brazil
- Mar 28, 2018
A priest connected with the Brazilian bishops’ Pastoral Land Commission was arrested and charged with extortion and money laundering.
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