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  • Murdered nun had mission (shot while reading the bible to her killers)

    02/21/2005 10:13:06 PM PST · by ambrose · 16 replies · 654+ views
    Denver Post ^ | 2.21.05
    The Denver Post Murdered nun had mission By Jim Kirksey Denver Post Staff Writer Monday, February 21, 2005 - Jefferson County - Sister Dorothy Stang was remembered Sunday as a missionary working with the poor, a martyr for giving her life in the cause of justice and peace, and a woman with the "awesome power" of angels. Stang, 73, of Dayton, Ohio, was slain Feb. 12 by gunmen in the Amazon region of Brazil about 1,300 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, where she worked to organize about 400 rural families. About 100 people, many from the Catholic missionary...
  • Activist nun, Dorothy Stang, shot dead in Amazon rainforest

    02/21/2005 9:24:39 PM PST · by Coleus · 51 replies · 2,347+ views
    Guardian ^ | 02.14.05 | Michael Astor
    Cabinet ministers and police officers arrived in the eastern Amazon region of Brazil yesterday to investigate the fatal shooting of a missionary nun compared to the 1988 murder of the rainforest activist Chico Mendes. Dorothy Stang, 74, a sister in the Order of Notre Dame de Namur and defender of the rainforest and local people persecuted by illegal loggers and landowners, was shot three times on Saturday near Anapu, a rural town about 1,300 miles north of Sao Paulo. She had defied frequent threats to her life, and recently met the minister for human rights, Nilmario Miranda, to report that...