In US race protests, Chile’s Indigenous youth see echoes of their own land struggle
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Watching the US anti-racism protests from a rural town in southern Chile, 19-year-old Belen Curamil, an Indigenous youth leader, has felt a sense of shared experience. Curamil’s Indigenous peers have endured years of police violence: some have been jailed and others killed in clashes over land rights. Belen Curamil, third from […]
Pope’s Chile visit to cast light on Mapuche Indians’ land struggle
Thomson Reuters Foundation The plight of Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people and their struggle for land rights will come under the spotlight as Pope Francis travels to the country on Monday amid growing tension between the Mapuche and loggers and farmers. The Argentine pontiff will visit the city of Temuco, the capital of Chile’s impoverished southern […]
CHILE: WHY ARE CHURCHES UNDER ATTACK?
In an article first published by World Watch Monitor, ISRAEL VILCHES looks at what’s prompted a series of attacks on Christian churches in Chile…
Catholic chapel becomes 16th church targeted by arsonists in Chile since December
A Catholic church has become the 16th church in the Araucanía and Bío-Bío regions of Chile to be destroyed by arson since last December, according to religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The San Andreas Chapel was burnt down in the early hours of 9th August and CSW reports that, despite an ongoing government investigation, those […]