Ecumenical and interreligious dialogue for the Amazon
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The compilation of articles brings studies on the cosmovision and ancestral knowledge of peoples from the Latin American region, who value the good life and harmony with nature.
The indigenous women of Brazil, gathered and mobilized through the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality – ANMIGA, present to the world the Reflorestarmentes. This is a great call to humanity, in an attempt to provide all the peoples of the world with a new possible way of relating to Mother Earth, and also to each other, the beings that live on her.
More than 5,000 indigenous women have marched through Brazil’s capital to denounce the historic assault on native lands they say is unfolding under the country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro.
The Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) commemorates the results after two years of the “Planting Lives” campaign and says it will continue to act in defense of the Amazon in the next period.
BRASÍLIA, August 16, 2021 – The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib) launches today (16) its International Complaints Dossier. The document brings together a series of data and information that demonstrate that Bolsonaro selected indigenous peoples as enemies of his government, and turned his hate speeches into state policy. The document also relates Bolsonaro’s…
For the first time in history, Indigenous Peoples address directly the court in The Hague, with their own lawyers, to stand up for their rights. Brasília, August 9, 2021 – The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples from Brazil (Apib) filed, this Monday (9), a statement before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to denounce Bolsonaro’s government on…
With thankfulness and joy, we share the sacred memories of our sisters through this project to get to know Indigenous Christian women theologians. This collection organised by Memória Indígena is just an initial step towards getting to know more Indigenous women who out of their identity as Indigenous women and their path as followers of Jesus show us their proposals for living for the global church.
As international and national ecumenical cooperation organizations with a broad representation of faith-based organizations, we add our voices to the multitude of calls from the international community, an urgent call for the Colombian state and government to stop the spiral violence that is seriously affecting the civilian population.
BRAZIL Sheila Tanaka Fundamentalisms in the Amazonia In 2020, the Ecumenic Forum ATC (FESUR) conducted a research over the advancements of the so-called political-religious fundamentalisms in South America. The term fundamentalisms refers to practices and discourses of intolerance and rejection of dialogue, which, in the case under study, form ‘a perspective of the world, an…
BRAZIL- Sheila Tanaka The pandemic of the new coronavirus raised several reflections on life in big cities, work and social relations and daily habits. The impact has been so deep that the term “new normal” ruled in newspapers and sociological analysis on the current moment. On the other hand, the pandemic exposed something not new…
