Kukama boys watch boats on the Amazon s Maranon River near Dos de Mayo in Peru s Loreto region. (CNS/Barbara Fraser)
Several years ago, Rodrigo Pedroso began noticing an unusual pattern in the Indigenous villages he visited in the Amazon rainforest: Next to small, often abandoned Catholic chapels were newer, often larger evangelical churches.
The observation led Pedroso, a Brazilian journalist, to examine what might be leading people in Indigenous communities to essentially swap Christian faiths. It became the focus of a project he reported in the fall of 2019 for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting s Rainforest Journalism Fund, titled River Missionaries: The Catholic Counteroffensive in the Amazon.
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