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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)
Time for action on Amazon synod, says Brazilian cardinal
Cardinal Hummes served as relator general at the 2019 synod, Amazonia: New paths for the church and for an integral ecology
Updated: July 23, 2021 05:00 AM GMT
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Pope Francis receives a plant offered by an Amazon native as he celebrates the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region on Oct. 27, 2019, at St. Peter s Basilica in the Vatican. (Photo: AFP)
Nearly two years after the conclusion of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, the Catholic Church in the region must implement the recommendations made, said Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, president of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon.
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