SHARING THE GOSPEL: AMERICAN’S DEATH SPARKS DEBATE OVER MISSIONARY WORK
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS report for Religion News Service…
Uncontacted tribes at risk amid ‘worrying’ surge in Amazon deforestation
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Illegal loggers and militias cleared an area three times the size of Gibraltar in Brazil’s Amazon this year, threatening an “uncontacted” indigenous tribe, activists said on Tuesday. Satellite imagery collected by Instituto Socioambiental, a Brazilian advocacy group, detected about 4,600 acres (1,863 hectares) of deforestation this year in the […]
Indigenous people fighting for land rights
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up more than half of all land globally, but they legally own just 10 per cent. The right of indigenous people to land and territories is protected by international legal conventions including the United Nations’ Declaration […]