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When the Catholic Church decided on its theme for this year’s Synod of Bishops, not many people batted an eyelid. The Catholic Church’s efforts to protect the natural biodiversity of the Amazon and the indigenous people living there are more or less universally accepted as something positive, at the very least something harmless—but try telling that to the Brazilian government. The relationship between indigenous populations, the Brazilian Army, and the Catholic Church, dates back over 100 years and has often been fraught and in some cases, bloody. The election of Jair Bolsonaro and the increasing influence of the military on the Amazon region has brought confrontations back to life.
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