The severe health care and hunger crisis affecting the Yanomami indigenous people in Roraima state prompted the Brazilian church to coordinate help and to work side by side with government agencies ...

A Yanomami man is pictured in a 2019 photo standing near an illegal gold mine on Indigenous land in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters) Communities of the ...

2002-10-01 04:00:00 PDT Surucucu, Brazil-- The Yanomami Indians have lived precariously in the most remote reaches of the jungle here for thousands of years, hunting with bows and arrows and warring ...

Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Faithful to its mystical and prophetic commitment to the cry of the poor and the earth, the Special Pastoral Episcopal Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking ...

Bishop Roque Paloschi of Porto Velho, Brazil, recalls attending a meeting about development in the Amazonian state of Roraima, home of the Indigenous Yanomami people, at which a government official ...