Tag: Dorothy Stang

Five Years After Her Martyrdom in Brazil Sister Dorothy Has Become a Symbol

February 12th for many means the Day of Impunity: it was exactly on this ...

Lawyers for Sister Dorothy’s Murder Trying Again to Get Him Out of Jail

Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, aka Bida, the landowning farmer accused of being one of ...

Brazil Sends Murderer of American Missionary Back to Prison

American missionary Sister Dorothy Stang, who worked with poor people, often landless farmers, in ...

Brazil Arrests Suspected Murder of US Nun, Charges Him with Land Grabbing

A Brazilian  rancher suspected of the murder of rainforest activist Dorothy Stang, an American ...

Suspect of Ordering US Missionary Murder Elected Deputy Mayor in Brazil

Three years and eight months after missionary Dorothy Stang was murdered, one of her ...

Was US Nun Killer Suspect in Brazil Innocented in Exchange for US$ 60,000?

Brazilian Public Prosecutors in Brazil's northern state of Pará will conduct a civil inquiry to ...

Brazil: Conviction of US Nun’s Murderer Thrown Out of Court

Just last October, Brazilian Rayfran das Neves Sales, self-confessed killer of American missionary Dorothy ...

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Killer of American Nun in Brazilian Amazon Gets 30 Years in Jail

Brazilian farmer Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, "Bida", was sentenced to 30 years in jail ...

American missionary Dorothy Stang murdered in Anapu, Pará state, Brazil

Brazil Remembers Second Anniversary of US Missionary Murder

Between February 9 and 12, different Brazilian social movements staged demonstrations in defense of ...

US$ 24,000: The Price to Kill an American Nun in Brazil

Amair Feijoli da Cunha, aka "Tato," a landowner in the Anapu region of the ...

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