Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network Archives

Church must empower indigenous, not speak for them, cardinal says

Oct 29, 2020

Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto, the new leader of the Church’s largest network in the Amazon, has said his top priorities are to protect indigenous communities and to fight poverty as COVID-19 continues to ravage Latin America.

By Elise Ann Allen

Bolivia’s bishops stress environment as elections approach

Aug 28, 2020

Bolivia’s bishops want environmental concerns to play a key role when voters go to the polls to elect a new government in October.

By Lucien Chauvin

‘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

Bishops praise Bolivians who seize drug-trafficking plane at airstrip

Jun 24, 2020

Bishops in Bolivia’s Amazon region praised residents of a small town who seized a light plane, apparently owned by drug traffickers, that had violated their ban on landing at the local airstrip.

By Barbara Fraser

Catholic leaders warn of humanitarian, environmental tragedy in Amazon

May 19, 2020

Catholic leaders warn that as the coronavirus pandemic spreads into the Amazon basin, the region may face a “humanitarian and environmental tragedy.”

By Barbara Fraser

Priest in Amazon sees Zoom wakes as way to comfort suffering

May 17, 2020

In early May, 67 bishops and priests from the Amazon region published an open letter, asking for more attention from federal and state governments as well as state and federal legislation for the disease in the region.

By Lise Alves

Key papal aide, new cardinal not worried about Amazon synod ferment

Sep 22, 2019

Soon-to-be Cardinal Michael Czerny, one of Pope Francis’s top collaborators inside the Roman Curia who serves as both the public face of Francis’s agenda for migrants and refugees and who is playing a key role in organizing next month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, has said he is not afraid of criticism of the event.

By Elise Harris

Synod to be surrounded by events offering prayer, criticism, support

Sep 18, 2019

Before members of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon began packing their bags for the synod assembly at the Vatican Oct. 6-27, a variety of groups were announcing side events.

By Cindy Wooden