The Catholic Church has been asked to back a national strike against pension changes aimed at cutting the nation's deficit Brazil's nine largest trade unions, as well as various pastoral commissions, have asked the country's Catholic bishops to help organize a nation-wide general strike on June 14 to protest changes to the country's pension system. Bishop Roberto Francisco Ferreira Paz, representative of Brazil's National Conference of Bishops, has said that plans of the government of Jair Bolsonaro would harm the welfare of ordinary people. Major reform of the pension systemThe announced pension "reform" is a key element of government efforts...