Five Women Witnesses
December 2, is the 40th Anniversary of Four Church Women of El Salvador who were murdered as they continued to serve the poor: Maura Clarke, MM, Ita Ford, MM, Dorothy Kazel, OSU, & Jean Donovan. On February 12th, we will honor the 15th Anniversary of the martyr of the Amazon, Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN.
These women committed their lives to changing Immigration and Environmental policies that would recognize the rights of indigenous people as well as policies that would allow them to end the cycle of poverty.
The smallest country in Latin America that would have been a footnote were it not for the U.S. foreign policy to keep leftists from creating a “strangle hold on the neck of Central America.” Further information about justice issues related to immigration policy militarism and border policy are found in a blog titled Immigration Reform: Why Do They Come Here?.
Four Dreams
“Querida Amazonia” Papal Exhortation, “The Amazon:
New Paths for the Church and for Integral Ecology
1. Rights of the poor where their voices will be heard and dignity advanced
2. Region will preserve their cultural right Christian communities that will give the church a new
Amazonian face.
3. Preservation of the natural beauty of the Amazon and its abundant life in forests and water
4. Celebrating Christian communities with Amazonian features
Three Issues-Continuing to Grip the Region
1. Immigration-Issue is seen as an enforcement rather than an economic disparity problem
2. Militarization-use of military against their own people to gain access to land and resources of people
their own gain
3. Ecology-destruction of the rainforest for farming that has impact on local and global sustainability
Two Regions
South and Central America
One World Crying Out for Justice
We celebrate these lives that live to proclaim the one Gospel message of the dignity of the human person embodied in social justice.