On the night of December 22, 1988, Chico Mendes was shot to death by a single shotgun blast outside his family’s house. He was the nineteenth environmental activist to be killed in Brazil that year.
Emrya Wajãpi, leader of the Wajãpi people, was killed on 23rd July in Amapá, a region bordering French Guyana. The killing has been described as the “fruit of hate campaigns perpetrated against Indigenous peoples”.
“I love you all and I love justice. Let us not approve violence, even if we are treated violently. The Father who is speaking to you has received death threats. Dear brothers, if my life belongs to you, so will Continue reading →
0n 12 February 2005, the whole of Brazil was stunned by the news that Sr Dorothy Stang had been assassinated. That morning, the gunmen contracted to kill her found her alone on a track in the middle of the Amazonian Continue reading →
Introduction: The text of John 10:1-18 presents us Jesus as the ‘Shepherd’ of God’s flock and the ‘door’ access to God. This text follows the previous text whereby Jesus, the good shepherd, contrasted himself with the Pharisees who had expelled Continue reading →
Young Koreans want to be peacemakers and protagonists of reconciliation on the Korean peninsula: it is with this spirit and this desire that the World Youth Pilgrimage for Peace organized recently by the Archdiocese of Seoul.
Today, environmentalists and conservationists are fighting to preserve the planet’s ecosystems and reminding us that all life on earth and our lives depend on preserving the balance of nature in a healthy environment where the oceans, forests, plants, crops, insects, Continue reading →
