Thursday, September 19, 2019
In the Carajás region, the struggle of the community of Piquiá de Baixo against the mining industry whose pollutants pose a serious threat to human health and the natural environment, is a strong symbolic example of peoples’ self-determination against the destroyers of the Amazon rainforest. Comboni missionary Dario Bossi will bring his testimony at the Synod for the Pan-Amazon region to be held at the Vatican from 6 to 27 October. [Patrizia Caiffa – SIR]