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Knights of Columbus Sends Oxygen to COVID-Stricken Amazon Region
February 12, 2021 GMT
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Responding to an urgent request from Archbishop Leonardo Steiner, O.F.M., archbishop of Manaus, Brazil, the Knights of Columbus has sent more than $200,000 in concentrated oxygen and personal oxygen concentrator devices to the Amazon regions of Brazil and Peru, where Indigenous populations have been hit hard by the COVID-19 virus.
Supreme Knight Carl Anderson immediately began the process of delivering aid to the Amazon region after hearing Archbishop Steiner’s desperate plea delivered via video in mid-January: “For the love of God, send us oxygen!”
More than $200,000 in concentrated oxygen and personal oxygen concentrator devices have been sent to the Amazon regions of Brazil and Peru to help the fight against Covid-19.
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By Lisa Zengarini
The Brazilian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CNBB) has invited the faithful to join a National Day of Prayer on February 2, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas Day), asking the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph to intercede in the ongoing fight against Covid-19.
“The aim is to ask God to nurture our hope and give us courage in facing the pandemic,” said the Secretary General of the CNBB, Bishop Portella Amado.
Light of hope Keep alight the light of hope” is the motto chosen for the Day of Prayer.
Catholics are invited to light a candle and to place it outside by a window when the night falls, as a symbolic gesture of hope and communion.