Comissão Episcopal para a Amazônia da Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil

Amazonize yourself: Church and civil society organizations have launched an awareness and care campaign for the Amazon on July 27, the “Amazoniza-te” (Amazonize yourself) Campaign. Organized by the Episcopal Commission for the Amazon of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) in partnership with other ecclesial and civil society organizations, the initiative appears sensitive to the context where violence against traditional peoples is aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic. We are facing a situation where deforestation and land grabbing, fires, legal and illegal mining are being intensified, becoming agents of proliferation of coronavirus in the Amazon region communities.