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In Amazon towns, church workers help indigenous keep languages alive
- Jul 20, 2019
Indigenous people risk losing their native languages.
Dialogue with indigenous: Understanding that ‘we are simple stewards’
- Jul 20, 2019
By convening a special synod on the Amazon at the Vatican in October, Pope Francis will be giving greater exposure to the Church’s deep concern for the people and the ecosystem on which they depend.
Struggles of families uprooted by Belo Monte reveal the dam’s dark side
- Jul 17, 2019
People along the Amazon basin try to survive after a dam project upended their fishing industry.
After Amazonians migrate to cities, they struggle to survive
- Jul 14, 2019
People being displaced by industry in the Amazon struggle to survive in cities.
U.S. bishops at odds over Amazon synod’s married priest proposal
- Jul 9, 2019
Two U.S. prelates have weighed in on the upcoming Synod on the Amazon, offering different takes on married priests.
Married priests officially on the agenda during Amazon synod
- Jun 17, 2019
When the bishops from the Amazon region gather in Rome next October, they will discuss the ordination of “elderly people,” preferably indigenous, to guarantee that the remote communities in the region have access to the sacraments.
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