A new study has found that the amount of lead that settled to the ground and likely seeped into houses downwind of the fire and within about half a mile of the cathedral was far greater than officials indicated at the time.
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Catholic leaders warn of humanitarian, environmental tragedy in Amazon
Catholic bishops from South America are warning that the pandemic will engender “a humanitarian and environmental tragedy” is something is not done to alleviate conditions particularly in the Amazon basin.
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Bishops in Amazon urge Peru to guard indigenous needs during pandemic
The needs of the indigenous peoples in South America are especially urgent during this time of pandemic and eight bishops of Peru’s Amazon region are pointing this out.
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Covid-19 in Guayaquil: ‘This is a matter that touches everyone’
Hospitals and funeral homes in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, are overwhelmed by the rising number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, said Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera.
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In a meeting after the synod, Amazon governors support ‘green economy’
In a daylong meeting at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Oct. 28, the governors made short presentations about steps they are taking toward sustainable development and problems they face.
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Regional church networks work to tackle climate change problems
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Deforestation, land grabbing and climate change — life-and-death issues raised at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon — also are wreaking havoc in Central America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific islands. One likely outcome of the synod is a more coordinated pastoral response to those issues by church workers in […]
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Development proposals at synod raise questions about indigenous rights
Proposals for Amazonian development made by well-known observers at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon could conflict with the expectations of indigenous people unless they are included in decision-making, some synod participants said.
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Amazon Synod looks at indigenous ‘theology of creation’
“Our Christian faith and the church teach us to seek and to find God in all things, as St. Ignatius says in the Spiritual Exercises. There is no pantheism in this.”
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Peru’s church leaders call for end to corruption amid political crisis
Catholic church leaders in Peru have called for an end to political corruption in that country in the aftermath of President Martin Vizcarra’s act to dissolve Congress, which subsequently led to a vote to have him removed from office.
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Residents fight to keep the Amazon alive, ‘but big money speaks louder.’ Can the church help?
For more than three decades, Juscelina Silva Batista’s life has followed the rise and fall of the Amazon River.