Indigenous communities

The shaman who welcomed Father Zanardini told him: “If you want to stay with us, you must learn many things.” And that’s what the priest did.

“Our relatives are finally home. For First Nations, these are not only artifacts. They are sacred, living items,” National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said.

The artifacts, from different First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities, were “received on the occasion of the Vatican Missionary Exhibition of 1925.”

Blessed Eliswa is “a source of inspiration for all those who work, in the Church and in society, for the dignity of women,” the pope said.

A South Dakota bishop and a Jesuit community have countered a recent decision to retain awards for soldiers who killed hundreds of Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee …

In 1934, Congress authorized President Franklin D. Roosevelt to declare Columbus Day a federal holiday, which came after advocacy from the Knights of Columbus.

“We resumed some of the proposals that emerged during the 2019 Amazon synod, like the creation of an Amazon fund that could finance part of our operations.”

(OSV News) — Indigenous peoples are “a blessing to the Church and Canadian society,” said the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. The bishops shared their thoughts in a June 19 statement, …

(OSV News) — Deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, a new species of screech owl, dubbed the Xingu screech owl, was discovered by scientists in 2021. However, what …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For Indigenous communities around the world, “land, water and food are not mere commodities, but the very basis of life and of these peoples’ bond with …