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Venezuelan Capuchin Friar Luis Antonio Salazar is seen Oct. 12, 2019, during a baptism ceremony at the Our Lady of Chiquinquira Parish in Caracas. The Friar has become famous for explaining the Bible via short videos posted on Instagram. (CNS photo/Manuel Rueda)

Faith

Explaining Scripture, Venezuelan priest becomes social media sensation

Manuel Rueda|Oct 21, 2019|4 Min Read

Rita Means, tribal council representative with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Sister Priscilla Solomon, a member of the Ojibway people and of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie, and Archbishop Donald J. Bolen of Regina, Saskatchewan, attend a news conference with indigenous leaders from North America in Rome Oct. 17, 2019. Members of the delegation spoke about their own challenges and connections to indigenous people from South America who are meeting at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

North American indigenous support Amazonian indigenous at synod

Cindy Wooden|Oct 17, 2019|3 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

Father Martin Lasarte, from Uruguay, pictured in 2015 in Angola, is a Salesian, appointed by Pope Francis as a synod father for the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon region. (Salesianas Angola via Crux)

World

Synod member, weary of married priest debate, rues getting stuck in ’70s

Inés San Martín|Oct 11, 2019|6 Min Read

Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra is seen July 11 in the Tupac Amaru hall of the Government Palace in Lima. (CNS photo/Andres Valle, EPA handout via Crux)

World

Amid political meltdown, Peru’s bishops urge fighting ‘cycle of corruption’

Elise Ann Allen|Oct 3, 2019|4 Min Read

Deacon Ferney Pereira and members of his Colombian parish take a boat on a river in the Amazon Sept. 8, 2019. (CNS photo/Manuel Rueda)

Faith

Tikuna deacon prepares to become first priest from Amazonian tribe

Catholic News Service|Oct 1, 2019|4 Min Read

Pope Francis and Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis of Aparecida, Brazil, walk to a meeting of cardinals in the synod hall at the Vatican Feb. 20, 2014. In a statement released by the Vatican Sept. 28, 2019, the pope named Cardinal Damasceno as pontifical commissioner of the Heralds of the Gospel and its religious branches for consecrated men and women. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope appoints commissioner to oversee religious group in Brazil

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 30, 2019|3 Min Read

A member of the Tembe indigenous tribe, which is facing a conflict with illegal loggers on its land, holds his bow and arrows in Teko-haw indigenous village near Paragominas, Brazil, Sept. 9, 2019. A report released Sept. 24 from the Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council shows the number of indigenous murdered last year increased by more than 20% in comparison to 2017. (CNS photo/Ricardo Moraes, Reuters)

World

Violence against indigenous in Brazil soars, says bishops' agency

Lise Alves|Sep 25, 2019|3 Min Read

Carmen Saez and her three-month-old son Axel Josue. (Crux/Ines San Martin)

World

Church on edge of the Amazon shelters refugees from Venezuela’s meltdown

Inés San Martín|Sep 20, 2019|5 Min Read

Smoke near Humaita

News

Brazilian Jesuit sees burning Amazon as 'apocalyptic, Dantesque'

Inés San Martín|Aug 26, 2019|5 Min Read

Amazon rainforest fires causing smoke to drift across the whole of Brazil

News

Bishops 'raise their voice' for the Amazon, as fires rage in Brazil

Inés San Martín|Aug 23, 2019|4 Min Read

Sister Diana Munoz Alba

News

Nun tries to warn Central Americans: Travel through Mexico is dangerous

David Agren|Jul 2, 2019|5 Min Read

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