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Title: Christian Missionaries get access to indiginious people
Post by: ironbite on August 16, 2020, 08:08:16 pm
IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC!

And not just any type of people either.  Amazonioan tribespeople. 

Cause you know....Brazil. (https://religionnews.com/2020/08/13/missionaries-gain-access-to-isolated-amazons-isolated-peoples-despite-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR091deRn48PTcZd8wTnft8PX1KX5qojanHP61WKFTRc9ljv8wOTXg9rBd0)

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SAO PAULO (RNS) — When the first COVID-19 cases hit Brazil in March, the government agency in charge of protecting the country’s Indigenous peoples, the National Indigenous Foundation, ordered all civilians to leave the Indigenous reservations. Only essential workers, such as health care personnel and those involved in food distribution, could remain.

But a new law signed by President Jair Bolsonaro on July 7 has made an exception for one group: Christian missionaries. A simple form from a doctor vouching for a faith worker’s health is enough to allow the person to stay as an essential worker.

According to Eliesio Marubo, a lawyer for the Indigenous Peoples Association of the River Javari Valley, known as UNIVAJA, some missionaries had never heeded the order to leave. “A few villages reported that there were evangelical missionaries in their areas who refused to go away,” Marubo told Religion News Service.

In April, UNIVAJA sued to force the expulsion of several evangelical missionaries, at least two of whom are U.S. citizens, from the Javari Valley, an important legal victory against a group that is closely aligned with Balsonaro.

Wonder how much money he got bribed with.

Ironbite-and how long will it be before he sends in blankets.
Title: Re: Christian Missionaries get access to indiginious people
Post by: dpareja on August 16, 2020, 08:29:38 pm
Bolsonaro doesn't need to be bribed, he has buddies in the logging sector who want all those pesky natives gone.

Because fuck breathable air, right?