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Sister Dorothy Stang in a 2004 photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur) / A Megascops stangiae seen in an undated photo (CNS photo/Douglas Fernandes, courtesy Global Sisters Report) SÃO PAULO (CNS) Researchers from Brazil, Finland and the United States recently discovered a new species of screech owl in the Amazon forest. Dubbed the Xingu screech owl, the little creature was given a scientific name of “Megascops stangiae” in honor of the late Sister Dorothy Stang, a U.S.-born Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. Sister Stang was assassinated in 2005 in Anapu, Brazil, while fighting for the Amazon forest and its people. Her congregation as well as the researchers who discovered the new species say naming the owl after the woman who dedicated most of her life to the people of the Amazon region is befitting. ....
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Published Mar 11, 2021 The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur held a virtual prayer service February 12 to close out the 15th Anniversary Year of the assassination of Sister Dorothy Stang by wealthy landowners in the Brazilian Amazon. The prayer service included the participation of two Sisters who worked alongside Sister Dorothy: Sister Joan Krimm and Sister Jo Anne Depweg. Sister Elizabeth Bowyer also took part. Sister Elizabeth was the Ohio Province Provincial who received the news of Sister Dorothy’s death. The service was opened by Archbishop Daniel Schnurr, of the Cincinnati Archdiocese. Discussion followed the prayer service, and included interviews of Sisters Jane Dwyer and Kathryn Webster, who also worked with Sister Dorothy and who remain in Brazil carrying on the work of empowering homesteaders in their struggles with wealthy landowners; a reflection by Samuel Clements, who produced a documentary on Sister Dorothy’s work in the year be ....
Zero convictions as impunity blocks justice for victims of Brazil’s rural violence Throughout 2019, the first year of the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro, 31 people were killed in a wave of rural violence that activists say was driven by the Brazilian government’s rhetoric. Since then, there have been no convictions in any of the cases, and the police are still investigating 19 of the murders; the sole closed case was ruled a drowning, despite evidence of violence against the Indigenous victim. Those killed in 2019 were mostly men who lived in Brazil’s Amazonian states, were affiliated with landless workers’ or Indigenous people’s movements, and who died defending their territories. ....