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“Amazon contamination slowly kills indigenous people,” explains missionary
Dominik Szkatula has lived with the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon for 37 years. She will participate in the synod.
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“The Amazon Synod is making visible those who were invisible in society”
The Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome hosted a meeting in which Card. Hummes and Card. Barreto participated. They are responsible for the Synod.
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Pope resumes his public agenda and prepares for more trips and Amazon Synod
The first semester was marked by the summit on abuses, trips to Europe and Muslim countries.
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Pope ends Amazon Synod: We have seen the disfigured face of the Amazon
"The mistakes of the past have not been enough to stop the plundering and inflicting wounds to our brothers and sisters and our sister earth," he recalled.
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Amazon synod enters critical stage
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“They stole the statues, wearing work clothes and holding cameras”
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Pope celebrates Mass on Sunday to celebrate Extraordinary Missionary Month
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Pope celebrates Mass for Missionary Month: make His disciples, not yours
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Indigenous people from US arrive to Rome to ask Pope to revoke ancient Bul
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe plans to draft a letter to Pope Francis, asking him to revoke the Papal Bull that gave early Christians the right to claim native people's lands.
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Pope meets with indigenous leaders in Vatican
He had a meeting with these representatives, almost all women, on the margins of the synodal assembly.
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“They don’t kill or torture us, but they do it to Amazon,” indigenous activist
Santiago Yahuarcani uses his paintings to reveal the threats facing the Amazon.
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Vatican pays tribute to music preserved by indigenous Bolivians
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Vatican inaugurates Amazon exhibit of indigenous objects with Christian symbols
It brings together works from the Vatican Museums and four other Italian museums.
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Indigenous people from Brazil: "We don't harm anyone, why is there so hate?"
The Church is one of the most committed institutions in the defense of the fundamental rights of these peoples.
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Eugenio Dal Corso, missionary cardinal for Africa
He has worked in marginalized areas of the African continent for 33 years.
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“The Amazon has a different way to live the Church, while keeping the faith”
The decrease in the Catholic population has led to the presence of many sects in the area.
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Challenges faced by Amazonian diocese as large as Greece with only 15 priests
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“Finally, 'the father of white man,' Pope Francis, who thinks like us, arrived”
“Finally, 'the father of white man,' Pope Francis, who thinks like us, has arrived,” explains indigenous leader
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Pope to Synod: I was sad to hear comment about indigenous man with feathers
“We have not come here to invent social development programs, or be custodians of museum-like cultures without respecting their traditions,” he reminded them.
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Pope opens Synod: Remember missionary martyrs
Remember the fire of God is a heat that attracts and gathers together, without seeking other interests.
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Crops that combat climate change in the Amazon
Indigenous communities have stopped burning the Amazon Forest, thanks to this cropping system.
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“The hardest thing is seeing people go hungry,” says a missionary in the Amazon
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Bishop of Peru: establishing an Amazonian rite would be a long-term task
The prelate of Moyobamba says that establishing a rite does not imply a simple liturgical change.
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Fr. Martin Lasarte: At the synod the pope asked not to ‘clericalize’ the laity
He is a Salesian in charge of the missions in
Africa and America. His participation in the
Amazon synod was a papal appointment.