
Steven Grattan
Amazon Correspondent at Associated Press
@AP Amazon rainforest/deforestation reporter | Previously Reuters in Brazil | N. Ireland is home | 📧: [email protected] 🏳️🌈
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4 days ago |
wdtimes.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.
"León seguirá los pasos de Francisco". Católicos en la Amazonía esperan que el papa proteja la selva
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apnews.com | Mauricio Savarese |Steven Grattan
SAO PAULO (AP) — El obispo se sentó en silencio cerca de la primera fila, con las manos entrelazadas, escuchando mientras líderes indígenas y trabajadores de la Iglesia hablaban sobre las amenazas a los bosques del norte de Perú, dentro de la selva amazónica. Era 2016, un año después de Laudato Si, la encíclica del papa Francisco sobre el medio ambiente. Cuando le tocó hablar, el obispo no predicó a pesar de que estaba en su ciudad, Chiclayo, como anfitrión de un encuentro regional.
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4 days ago |
goskagit.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.
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register-herald.com | Mauricio Savarese |Steven Grattan
'Leo will follow Francis.' Amazon Catholics hope the new pope will protect the rain forestFor 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 concern
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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.
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