Pope concerned for Amazon and Indigenous peoples, says its first cardinal
Manaus, Brazil Reuters Pope Francis will install the first cardinal of Brazil’s Amazon region this month in a sign of his concern for the rainforest and its Indigenous inhabitants, the man whom he picked for the role said. Dom Leonardo Steiner, Archbishop of the Brazilian city of Manaus, said in an interview that Francis, the […]
Catholic Church: First cardinal from Amazon rainforest – “Distance between Rome and the Amazon is now smaller”
FABIANO MAISONNAVE and NICOLE WINFIELD, of Associated Press, report on the appointmend of Leonardo Steiner, Archbishop of the Brazilian city of Manaus, as the first cardinal from the Amazon region…