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Pope Francis at the opening Mass for the Amazon synod Oct. 6, 2019. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.Vatican City, Oct 20, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).Pope Francis has approved the establishment of an ecclesial conference for the Amazon region, the Vatican announced Wednesday.The Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon was created by bishops in Latin America in 2020 at the recommendation of the 2019 Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazonian Region.The new body, which has the task of expressing "the Amazonian face" of the Church, goes by the acronym CEAMA, based on its Spanish title, Conferencia Eclesial de la Amazonía."Well disposed to favor such an initiative … Pope Francis instructed the Congregation for Bishops to follow and accompany the process closely, lending whatever help was needed to give the body an adequate form," the Holy See press office said on Oct. 20.The pope canonically erected the ecclesial conference as a "public ecclesiastical juridical person" during a meetin

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