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.Deacon Shainkiam Yampik Wananch, seated at right, leads a liturgy with indigenous Achuar people at a chapel in Wijint, a village in the Peruvian Amazon, Aug. 20, 2019. (CNS photo/Maria Cervantes, Reuters) .Pope Francis accepts offertory gifts from indigenous people as he celebrates the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican in this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) .Deacon Shainkiam Yampik Wananch prays in a chapel in Wijint, a village in the Peruvian Amazon, Aug. 20, 2019. (CNS photo/Maria Cervantes, Reuters) .Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, president of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon, is pictured in a March 23, 2017, photo. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)