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Patients in the emergency room of the Nossa Senhora da Conceição hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil March 11. The emergency room is overcrowded because of the spike in COVID-19 cases. (CNS/Reuters/Diego Vara)
Sao Paulo A second wave of COVID-19 infections has swept Brazil over the past few months, taking the average number of daily deaths to more than 2,500 and causing the collapse of the health care system in several cities.
As the crisis grows, Catholic Church leaders face great challenges in helping those in need and in fighting pandemic denialism, which is often supported by the man many blame for the chaos in the country, President Jair Bolsonaro.
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On May 6, 2015, the Brazilian government officially recognized a special economic region, one that the country’s agribusiness producers especially soy growers and ranchers had earlier dubbed MATOPIBA (a name generated by combining the first two initials of the four states it comprised: Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia).
Both officialdom and elite agricultural producers viewed MATOPIBA as Brazil’s last great undeveloped agricultural frontier and a juggernaut of the nation’s commodities export economy.
However, long before that auspicious date, these four states occupied the northernmost reaches of a politically neglected region: the vast semi-arid grasslands known as the Cerrado a biome that rivals its Amazon neighbor in extraordinary biodiversity, but which until the 21st century was mostly occupied by Indigenous and traditional peoples.
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The famous Christ the Redeemer statue is seen atop Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro July 6, 2019. (Credit: Henry Romero/Reuters via CNS.)
Traditionalist Catholics in Brazil are complaining about a Lenten campaign which mentions the “politics of violence” aimed at the South American country’s LGBT community.
SÃO PAULO – Traditionalist Catholics in Brazil are complaining about a Lenten campaign which mentions the “politics of violence” aimed at the South American country’s LGBT community.
The annual Fraternity Campaign is organized by the Catholic bishops’ conference, but every five years is also promoted by the National Council of Christian Churches (CONIC), an ecumenical group including mainline groups such as the Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Syrian Orthodox churches.