Catholic leaders from US, Amazon urge governments to protect rainforest
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The Tablet January 19, 2021
A man carries a cylinder as relatives of patients hospitalized or receiving health care at home gather to buy oxygen at a private company in Manaus, Brazil, Jan. 15, 2021. (Photo: CNS/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)
By Lise Alves
SAO PAULO (CNS) With the news that dozens of people were suffocating to death due to a lack of oxygen in hospitals in the Amazon city of Manaus, Catholic bishops made a plea for the supply of an essential element for survival.
“We, bishops of Amazonas and Roraima, make an appeal: For the love of God, send us oxygen,” Archbishop Leonardo Steiner of Manaus said in a video released Jan. 15.
January 19, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: “It is not possible for Brazil to forget the peoples of the Amazon at such a cruel time and to close our ears to the clamor of people who are dying; and (to) their families and health professionals, who cannot care for patients due to lack of oxygen and have to look passively as patients die, suffocated by lack of oxygen, in terrible conditions,” said retired Bishop Erwin Kräutler, president of the Brazilian branch of the Pan-Amazonian Church Network.
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