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Barbara J. Fraser

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Barbara J. Fraser writes for Catholic News Service.

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Peru

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After failed coup, Peru's bishops urge citizens to stand up for democracy

Barbara J. Fraser|Dec 8, 2022|3 Min Read

Carla Marquez, 36, who is six months pregnant, burns wood on the street to cook a meal for her husband, Carlos Henrique Mendes, 25, and their daughter, Gabriela, 5, outside their home in São Paulo Sept. 16, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. Among the challenges identified during the process of the Latin American church's First Ecclesial Assembly were social and economic inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic. (CNS photo/Amanda Perobelli, Reuters)

World

Catholic leaders want Latin American church that's synodal, reaches out

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 31, 2022|5 Min Read

The Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council fears that at least five isolated Indigenous groups, similar to this one, are in imminent risk of being exterminated in the Amazon forest. (CNS photo/Gleilson Miranda, courtesy FUNAI)

World

Amazon Catholic leaders: Isolated Indigenous peoples must be protected

Barbara J. Fraser and Lise Alves|Sep 13, 2022|6 Min Read

Demonstrators take part in a protest against Peruvian President Pedro Castillo's government, demanding his resignation, in Lima, Peru, in this April 9, 2022, file photo. Amid a political crisis in which the president, his wife and members of her family are accused of corruption and taking bribes, Peru's bishops have called for dialogue and a commitment to uphold democratic institutions. (CNS photo/Angela Ponce, Reuters)

World

Peru's bishops call for 'urgent and creative solution' to nation's crisis

Barbara J. Fraser|Aug 19, 2022|3 Min Read

Flames and smoke billow from the Notre Dame Cathedral after a fire broke out in Paris April 15, 2019. A new study has found that the amount of lead that settled to the ground and likely seeped into houses downwind of the fire was far greater than officials indicated at the time. (CNS photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)

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New study: Lead exposure from Notre Dame fire worse than first thought

Barbara J. Fraser|Jul 14, 2020|4 Min Read

A Venezuelan migrant gets a free food package outside of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Bogota, Colombia, May 29, 2020. Migrants have been hit hard economically by Colombia's COVID-19 lockdown as they lose their jobs and struggle to pay rent. (CNS photo/Manuel Rueda)

World

As Latin America becomes center of pandemic, churches confront hunger

Barbara J. Fraser|Jun 1, 2020|6 Min Read

Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos embraces her niece outside their home in Manaus, Brazil, May 7, 2020. Santos is a nurse who has volunteered to provide the only frontline care protecting her indigenous community of 700 families during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

World

Catholic leaders warn of humanitarian, environmental tragedy in Amazon

Barbara J. Fraser|May 18, 2020|3 Min Read

A nurse adjusts an oxygen tank next to a tent for COVID-19 patients in the parking lot of a hospital in Lima, Peru, April 16, 2020. As coronavirus cases surge in Peru's two largest Amazonian cities, Iquitos and Pucallpa, Catholic leaders are struggling to find ways to provide the sick with the most basic health need, life-sustaining oxygen. (CNS photo/Sebastian Castaneda, Reuters)

World

In Amazon cities, Peru church leaders struggle to provide oxygen for sick

Barbara J. Fraser|May 5, 2020|3 Min Read

An indigenous man from the Pataxo ethnic group is seen in Sao Joaquim de Bicas, Brazil, March 25, 2020. (CNS photo/Washington Alves, Reuters)

World

Catholic leaders urge governments to protect indigenous during pandemic

Barbara J. Fraser|Mar 31, 2020|4 Min Read

Iraqi demonstrators gather during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad Dec. 6, 2019. (CNS photo/Khalid al-Mousily, Reuters)

World

Experts: Protests reflect world frustration with inequality, corruption

Barbara J. Fraser|Dec 9, 2019|7 Min Read

Police in Santiago, Chile, clash with a demonstrator Nov. 14, 2019, during a protest against Chile's government. Chile's bishops Nov. 9 called for national dialogue and an end to the violence that has wracked the country for a month. (CNS photo/Goran Tomasevic, Reuters)

World

Chile bishops urge talks to end protests, injustice country faces

Barbara J. Fraser|Nov 15, 2019|3 Min Read

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2019. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

World

Amazon governors, meeting after synod, support 'green economy'

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 29, 2019|4 Min Read

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