AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report of the Pastoral Land Commission: 2020 year of terror due to registered conflicts
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Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), an organization linked to the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), presented the 35th edition of the report that contains information on conflicts in the Brazilian countryside for the year 2020. At the launch, the CPT paid tribute to Dom Andre de Witte, Bishop who presided over the CPT in the last administration, and died on April 25, 2021.
The Bishop of Itacoatiara and current President of the CPT, Mgr. José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, stressed that since the beginning of the CPT, in 1975, the pastoral care has tried to record the violence in the countryside and highlighted the importance of the work of systematization done by the Dom Tomás Balduino Documentation Center, created in 1985, with the mission of recording violence and attacks on human rights in the countryside. The Bishop also spoke