Mauricio Savarese

6 days ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Mauricio Savarese |Steven Grattan

SAO PAULO (AP) - The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru's northern forests, a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment. When he was up to speak, the bishop didn't preach though he was in his city of Chiclayo as host of a regional gathering. Instead, he reflected on things he had seen. "It's a very important encyclical," he said.

6 days ago | kaaltv.com | Mauricio Savarese |Steven Grattan

SAO PAULO (AP) — The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. When he was up to speak, the bishop didn’t preach though he was in his city of Chiclayo as host of a regional gathering. Instead, he reflected on things he had seen. “It’s a very important encyclical,” he said.

6 days ago | whec.com | Mauricio Savarese |Steven Grattan

SAO PAULO (AP) — The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. When he was up to speak, the bishop didn’t preach though he was in his city of Chiclayo as host of a regional gathering. Instead, he reflected on things he had seen. “It’s a very important encyclical,” he said.

6 days ago | abcnews.go.com | Mauricio Savarese |Steven Grattan

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest protection and rights at the center of Church concernByMAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press and STEVEN GRATTAN Associated PressFILE - Pope Francis leaves after celebrating an opening Mass for the Amazon synod, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Oct. 6, 2019.

6 days ago | heraldbulletin.com | Mauricio Savarese |Steven Grattan

You have permission to edit this article. Close Pope Leo XIV, then Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo Robert Prevost, preaches during a Corpus Christi celebration in a stadium in Chiclayo, Peru, Friday, June 19, 2015. FILE - Copies of Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si," (Praise Be) are displayed prior to the start of a press conference, at the Vatican, June 18, 2015.