Pan-Amazon Region Archives - Page 4 of 5

Modern-day ‘suffragettes’ push for voting rights in Amazon synod

Oct 2, 2019

As the Pan-Amazonian synod approaches, women from several orders and organizations have banded together to demand that they be given voting rights over influential documents drafted during the meeting – a right typically awarded only to ordained men.

By Elise Harris

Women play outsized role in missionary activity in Amazon

Sep 9, 2019

The suggestion of a need to identify the “type of official ministry that can be conferred on women” included in the working document of the upcoming Synod for the Pan-Amazon region has been controversial, but Bishop Adriano Ciocca Vasino of the Territorial Prelature of São Félix in Brazil thinks the document is “timid” about the role of the women in the region, which he says “in many communities is already diaconal.”

By Eduardo Campos Lima

Evangelical missions a major threat to Amazon culture, Catholic leaders say

Sep 3, 2019

As the Synod for the Amazon approaches, Church leaders in the region want to speak about the growing influence of Evangelical and Pentecostal denominations among indigenous peoples.

By Eduardo Campos Lima

Territory is life, life is territory: what indigenous want Church to know

Feb 14, 2019

A year ago, during a visit to Peru, Pope Francis asked an audience of native people of the Amazon basin to help bishops and religious to understand their relationship with the natural world. Since then, church leaders have held more than 40 meetings in the nine Amazonian countries to listen to local people, in preparation for the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon to be held at the Vatican in October.

By Barbara Fraser

Brazil bishop says Pope’s eco-agenda will loom large in Amazon synod

Nov 2, 2018

With the Synod of Bishops on youth now in the rearview mirror, attention is being turned toward next year’s special synod on the Amazon, which one prelate says is a reflection of the pope’s deep commitment to developing an integral ecology.

By Elise Harris

Vatican ‘not precluding’ questions on ordination at Amazon meeting

Jun 8, 2018

At a press conference on the summit of bishops focusing on the Pan-Amazonian people and region set for October 2019, Vatican officials did not close the door to the possibility of opening up official ministries to women and married men.

By Claire Giangravè