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Brazilian Church leaders increasingly critical of Brazil’s Bolsonaro

July 08, 2021

According to the Italian-born Bishop Adriano Ciocca Vasino of the Prelature of São Félix do Araguaia, there is a clear progression “from statements to concrete actions” by the Brazilian Church in relation to the Bolsonaro administration. “The situation looks intolerable. In a country with a minimum level of democracy, the current state of affairs would have changed long ago,” he told the Catholic Herald.

Church movements denounce attacks against the Yanomami in Brazil

May 26, 2021

According to Luis Ventura, a lay missionary at the Bishops’ Conference’s Indigenous Missionary Council (known as CIMI), there have been at least two firearm attacks against Yanomami communities in the Amazon since March.

Brazil’s Bishops Sound Alarm over Covid-19 Prison Dangers

May 10, 2021

Inmates’ relatives outside the Dom Bosco Juvenile Detention Centre, where detainees rioted in April of 2020 after authorities suspended family visits to prevent the spread of coronavirus. April 18, 2020. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP) (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images) Inmates’ relatives, pastoral workers decry insufficient information, safety measures By Eduardo