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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)

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Amazon Catholic leaders: Isolated Indigenous peoples must be protected

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

Guarani Indigenous people protest as they mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples in São Paulo Aug. 9, 2022. The Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council said record violence last year against traditional peoples may have made 2021 "the worst year of the century" for Indigenous peoples. (CNS photo/Amanda Perobelli, Reuters)

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Violence against Indigenous in Brazil surges, says Catholic council

Lise Alves|Aug 18, 2022|3 Min Read

A man from the Shanenawa tribe observes an Indigenous dance during a 2019 festival to celebrate nature and ask for an end to the burning of the Amazon in Feijó, Brazil. A Brazilian Catholic official hopes the papal apology in Canada will encourage citizens to get involved to stop violence against Indigenous peoples. (CNS photo/Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters)

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Papal apology reinforces Brazilian church's Indigenous work, leaders say

Lise Alves|Jul 29, 2022|3 Min Read

Father Julio Lancellotti is pictured in a file photo blessing a homeless man in Sao Paulo. Father Lancellotti, who has led work with the homeless in Sao Paulo for more than 30 years, was surprised Oct. 10, 2020, by a call from Pope Francis, asking about his work with the homeless. (CNS photo/Luciney Martins, courtesy O Sao Paulo)

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Pope calls Brazilian priest, thanks him for work with homeless

Lise Alves|Oct 12, 2020|4 Min Read

U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo speaks to Venezuelans Sept. 18, 2020, who fled to Brazil amid their homeland's economic and political crises. (CNS photo/courtesy UNHCR)

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Pompeo visits Catholic-run refugee center, parish in Brazil

Lise Alves|Sep 21, 2020|3 Min Read

Retired Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga, a proponent of liberation theology and supporter of Brazil's indigenous peoples, died Aug. 8 at age 92. He pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo courtesy Sao Felix Prelature archives)

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Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga, 'bishop of the poor,' dies in Brazil at 92

Lise Alves|Aug 10, 2020|5 Min Read

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a protective mask, holds a banana before a ceremony of lowering the national flag for the night at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia July 24, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Adriano Machado, Reuters)

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Nearly one-third of Brazilian bishops sign letter critical of government

Lise Alves|Jul 30, 2020|4 Min Read

Bishop Jose Santos Mendes of Brejo, Brazil, speaks to Catholics in this 2017 photo. Bishop Mendes is a leader in the "Life by a Thread" campaign, which strives to give more visibility to environmental threats and to use "Laudato Si'" and the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon as a guide. (CNS photo/Ingrid Campos, courtesy CPP)

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Brazilian church campaign draws attention to threats against advocates

Lise Alves|Jul 29, 2020|3 Min Read

A woman wearing a protective mask gestures on a street in Brasilia, Brazil July 7, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Brazil, where the cases as of July 12 totaled more than 1.8 million and over 72,000 deaths, 400 inmates from 23 prisons are producing 350,000 masks to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. (CNS photo/Adriano Machado, Reuters)

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NGO's programs in Brazil, Kenya produce masks to help contain COVID-19

Lise Alves|Jul 13, 2020|4 Min Read

A file photo shows a Yanomami standing near an illegal gold mine on indigenous land in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

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Brazil's Yanomami ask OAS for help keeping out miners, COVID-19

Lise Alves|Jun 24, 2020|2 Min Read

Indigenous women are seen at the Satere Mawe Association of Indigenous Women in Manaus, Brazil, April 24, 2020. The women sew face masks for sale during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

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Advocates: Brazilian government not protecting indigenous during pandemic

Lise Alves|May 5, 2020|3 Min Read

Norberto Cruz da Silva, a leader in the Wapishana indigenous village of Tabalascada in the Brazilian Amazon and the local catechist coordinator, is pictured in April 2019. The final document of the October Synod of Bishops for the Amazon acknowledged that a lack of priests means Catholics in the region have only sporadic access to the Eucharist, reconciliation and anointing of the sick. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

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In Amazon, without a priest, 'there is a hole in the family'

Lise Alves|Jan 30, 2020|5 Min Read

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