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Posted by Jim Motavalli () on 18:01:33 16/02/05
Remembering Sister Dorothy Stang
When I met Sister Dorothy Stang, I knew I was encountering someone remarkable. I met her in Belém, the capital of Pará state in northern Brazil. Belém has more than a million people, and it was not the natural habitat for Dayton, Ohio native Dorothy Stang.
She lived far from the city in a remote Amazonian jungle settlement populated by the landless peasants whose interests she tirelessly protected, along with the rainforest itself.
read more of my article at
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2254
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