Brazilian nun works to raise Black teen girls' self-esteem in Amazon
Feb 1, 2021 catholic news service Young women practice a school play that recalls their troubled history in the Escola Sao Joao in Quilombo Tiningu, near Santarem, Brazil, April 10, 2019. Elsewhere in the Brazilian state of Pará, a Franciscan nun is using Afro Brazilian traditions, including dance, to increase the self-esteem of teen girls. (Credit: Paul Jeffrey/CNS.) In vast regions of the Amazonian state of Pará, the presence of Black people has been historically invisible, even though it's an area that received Black migrants from the northeast. SAO PAULO — In vast regions of the Amazo...
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