Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology

In preparation for the October Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, Latin America correspondent of CNS Barbara Fraser and photographer Paul Jeffrey spent a month in the Amazon, visiting several countries to find out what Pope Francis means when he talks about having a church with an “Amazonian and indigenous” face. "The diversity of faces reflects the complexity of issues in the region," Fraser writes in her overview.

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