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Barbara J. Fraser

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Barbara J. Fraser writes for Catholic News Service.

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Londolfo Aranha Neto, 59, casts his net among treetops at the edge of the Belo Monte Dam reservoir, near Altamira, Brazil. He is among the thousands of fisher families displaced by the flooding of the Xingu River who are slowly moving back. But the once-rich fishing grounds yield far fewer fish than before, and he says fishers constantly snag their nets on submerged trees. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

World

Caring for common home requires deep ecological conversion, synod says

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 27, 2019|4 Min Read

Pope Francis accepts offertory gifts from an indigenous man as he celebrates the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 27, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

Christians must shun self-worship, pope says at synod's final Mass

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 27, 2019|4 Min Read

Bishop Emmanuel Lafont, who leads the Diocese of Cayenne in French Guiana, speaks at a news conference following a session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

'We are all responsible': Bishop urges lifestyle change to protect Amazon

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 22, 2019|4 Min Read

Fishermen near Fonte Boa, Brazil, catch a fish in a Solimoes River tributary Nov. 24, 2013. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

World

From sidewalk weeds to Amazon waterways, the wonders of creation abound

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 21, 2019|4 Min Read

Capuchin Sister Daniela Cannavina (third from left), secretary general of the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean Religious, told reporters in Rome Oct. 18, 2019, that the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon marks "a prophetic hour for religious life." She was one of 10 religious sisters elected as observers at the synod by the International Union of Superiors General. (CNS photo/Barbara J. Fraser)

World

Women's role in Amazon church does not depend on diaconate, sisters say

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 18, 2019|4 Min Read

People near San Rafael, Bolivia, march to Santa Cruz de la Sierra Sept. 25, 2019, to defend earth and its resources. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)

World

Church must make 'preferential option for the Amazon,' bishop says

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 18, 2019|3 Min Read

Anitalia Pijachi, a member of the Ocaina Huitoto indigenous group from Colombia and an observer at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, is pictured Oct. 11, 2019, near the Vatican. She said she agreed to participate in the synod to carry a message from the elders of her people to the elder of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis. (CNS photo/Barbara J. Fraser).

World

Indigenous woman brings message from her elders to pope as church elder

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 14, 2019|4 Min Read

Demonstrators kneel down during a protest against Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno's austerity measures in Quito, Ecuador, Oct. 11, 2019. Ecuadorian observers at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican are keeping an eye on massive protests that have claimed the lives of at least five people in their country. (CNS photo/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters)

World

Ecuador's president rolls back austerity measures that triggered protests

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 14, 2019|4 Min Read

Celestina Fernandes da Silva, a Catholic activist, waters flowers in front of her home in the Wapishana indigenous village of Tabalascada, Brazil, April 3, 2019. Franciscan Father Joao Messias Sousa, who works among indigenous in the Amazon, said the people believe "God is in all things, but those things are not gods." (CNS Photo/Paul Jeffrey)

Faith

God in all things: Synod looks at indigenous 'theology of creation'

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 10, 2019|4 Min Read

New cardinal Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo of Indonesia meets with members of his family after a consistory for the creation of 13 new cardinals at the Vatican Oct. 5, 2019. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)

Friends, family, faithful celebrate new cardinals at Vatican reception

Barbara J. Fraser and Carol Glatz|Oct 6, 2019|5 Min Read

Pope Francis and Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, relator general of the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, watch as members of an indigenous community plant a tree during a celebration marking the feast of St. Francis in the Vatican Gardens Oct. 4, 2019. (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters)

On feast of St. Francis, pope joins Amazonians to plant tree at Vatican

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 4, 2019|2 Min Read

Firefighters near Robore

News

Wildfires point to urgency of upcoming Amazon synod, Bolivian bishop says

Barbara J. Fraser|Aug 27, 2019|4 Min Read

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