ISLANDIA, Peru (CNS) — The parish where Sister Maria Emilia Molenda Kuche works stretches along the banks of the Amazon River and far up the Yavari River, an area sparsely populated by Tikuna, Yagua and Kukama Indians.

BOA VISTA, Brazil (CNS) — Consolata Brother Carlo Zacquini was ministering among the Yanomami people in a remote area of Brazil, near the border with Venezuela, when gold miners invaded their lands.

LETHEM, Guyana (CNS) — Edwina Tancredo last saw her 17-year-old son more than a year ago, when he and some friends left the village of Hiowa to seek work in a mine. A few months later, most of the group returned, but not her son.

HIOWA, Guyana (CNS) — Joseph Abraham, the son of two of the first teachers to work in Guyana’s remote Amerindian villages, never went to secondary school. Yet he became a teacher and principal of the school in Hiowa.

ST. IGNATIUS, Guyana (CNS) — In an open-sided circular building beside the Catholic chapel in this Amerindian village, Scarboro Father Ron MacDonell was explaining how the tongue, the teeth and the vocal cords work together to produce sounds.

SANTAREM, Brazil (CNS) — Marluce Coelho has mixed feelings about the college scholarship that has made her one of about 300 students of Afro-Brazilian descent studying at the Federal University of Western Para.

ALTAMIRA, Brazil (CNS) — Treetops poke above the surface of the lake that laps at the shore of this Amazonian town. “People used to live there,” said Joana Gomes da Silva, pointing to the cluster of skeletal trunks and

MANAUS, Brazil (CNS) — On Christmas Eve of 2015, Marcia Soares’ home was bulldozed into oblivion, and with it, her dreams for the future.

SANTAREM, Brazil (CNS) — For more than three decades, Juscelina Silva Batista’s life has followed the rise and fall of the Amazon River. During the rainy season, she canoes practically to the door of her simple wooden house, skirting a raft that holds potted plants and a few chickens, and ducking under the long pods hanging from tamarind trees.

LIMA, Peru (CNS) – When Pope Francis came face to face with more than 2,000 Amazonian indigenous people in Peru in January 2018, he told them the place where they live is holy ground, and that they and the Amazon region are important to the Catholic Church and the entire world.

In order to provide pastoral governance for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Archbishop Aymond has made the following appointments: Rev. Richard Boever, C.Ss.R., as Director of the Seelos Shrine, effective September 1, 2019.

I’ll always remember what I heard a particularly weary priest say in an open forum of his colleagues 20 years ago.

A food pantry now in its second year of operation at the Cancer Center at University Medical Center (UMC) is giving oncology patients one less thing to worry about: nutritious food to help sustain them and their families during their taxing period of treatment.

Two hundred thirteen priests of the Archdiocese of New Orleans gathered Sept. 24-26 for prayer, fellowship and formation at their annual convocation. The theme was “Priestly Wellness” – remaining balanced for effective ministry.

The act of bearing false witness to destroy someone is an attack against the body of the church, Pope Francis said.

The four Catholic Lasallian Schools of the San Francisco New Orleans District held their third annual educational convocation, “NOLAsallians,” Aug. 30 at St. Paul’s School. Roy Tetifils, a Catholic psychotherapist with 25 years of youth experience, was keynote speaker.

The Norman C. Francis Leadership Institute (NCFLI)  honored Tania Tetlow, Loyola University New Orleans president, Sept. 21 with its Fellow of the Year Award at NCFLI’s third annual fundraiser.

History was made Friday night at St. Charles Catholic High School in LaPlace. Before St. Charles Catholic defeated E.D. White 36-0, Archbishop Gregory Aymond and Saints owner Gayle Benson dedicated the Comets’ new Thomas J. Dupuy football stadium.

I may be hallucinating. However, sometime soon, my guess is Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson will be in charge of another New Orleans franchise. If the state of Louisiana and the Southern League get it right, they’ll entice Mrs. Benson to bring minor league baseball back.