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Church leaders from U S , Amazon ask governments to protect rainforest

Church leaders from U.S., Amazon ask governments to protect rainforest Friday, Apr. 23, 2021 By Catholic News Service SÃO PAULO  Less than a week before the U.S.-sponsored Leaders Summit on Climate, environmental and religious leaders said they are worried about talks on how to preserve the region and are asking government officials from the U.S. and the Amazon to look kindly at the rainforest and its peoples. “The Amazon is very important for humanity, for life . it helps stabilize the climate, it is a source of life,” said Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, president of the Pan-Amazonian Church Network, or REPAM.

For the Love of God, Send Us Oxygen, Plead Bishops in Brazil s Amazon

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.

For the love of God, send us oxygen, plead bishops in Brazil s Amazon region | News Headlines

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. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.

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