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Liturgy South America

Amazonian Rite’s proposition to include ordination of women deacons

The commission in charge of the elaboration of the Amazonian Rite will include in its final proposition a request for the ordination of women deacons, a new document shows. Source: Crux.

Pope Francis South America

Pope’s death sparks outpouring of grief in Argentina

Pope Francis’s death has affected his motherland of Argentina, with an outpouring of grief in the South American nation. Source: Crux.

Laity South America

Vatican formally suppresses Peru-based Catholic movement

Pope Francis has ordered the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Peru-based lay movement active across Latin America and the United States, and three related lay movements. Source: OSV News.

South America

Church ceiling collapse in Brazil sparks fear of more accidents

Government agencies in Brazil have shut 12 churches at risk of collapsing in Salvador, after the ceiling of a historic church in the city fell and killed a tourist on February 5. Source: Crux.

South America

Amazon gets its third hospital ship

After more than three years of work to transform a passenger ship of the Amazon into a hospital boat, Saint John 23 will be launched tomorrow, offering healthcare services to riverside communities of the Amazonas state in Brazil. Source: Crux.

South America

Brazilians march in support of religious freedom

Practitioners of different religious traditions marched down Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Copacabana Beach on Sunday to support religious freedom in Brazil, where cases of intolerance have doubled over the past six years. Source: NCR Online.

Environment South America

Bolivia’s bishops call for urgent action on ‘ecological disaster’  

Bolivia’s bishops have urged the country’s authorities to act quickly in staving off irreparable harm to people and the environment as raging wildfires continue to devastate millions of acres. Source: OSV News.

Human Rights South America

Missing boy spurs Church groups to fight trafficking in Argentina

More than two months after a five-year-old boy went missing in a northeastern Argentina, the Church continues to promote marches to demand his captors release him. Source: OSV News.

South America

Venezuelan bishops voice concerns over election results

The Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference announced it was “uniting its voice”  to demands from “inside and outside Venezuela” for the results of Sunday’s general election to be verified. Source: The Tablet.