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David Agren - Catholic News Service
The attack on a pacifist community during prayer and the sheer cruelty -- with the assailants chasing victims through a cloud forest for hours and not even sparing four pregnant women -- highlighted the struggles of Indigenous communities in Chiapas.
Auska Mitchell holds a photograph of his nephew, Lezmond Mitchell, on Aug. 21 in the Phoenix area. Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to be executed this Wednesday, Aug. 26. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy
The Catholic Church and the Navajo Nation stand together in opposition to the execution of Lezmond Mitchell because it, like the racism which brought his death sentence to pass, erodes the sanctity of human life, writes Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy.
Fishermen at sunset in November 2015 along the freshwater lagoon in Tela, Honduras. (CNS photo) 
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jackie McVicar
Garifuna villages along the north coast of Honduras have set up roadblocks to demand answers about the enforced disappearances. “You took them alive, we want them alive!” protesters shouted.
FaithTelevision
Gaby Guerrero
This documentary can be considered one more piece of the recent American narrative pushing us continually to wake up to our past injustices.
Politics & SocietyNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
California Native people prayed at a makeshift altar before activists took down the statue of Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan credited with spreading the Catholic faith but also seen as part of an imperial conquest.
Politics & SocietyNews
Lise Alves - Catholic News Service
The surge of deaths of indigenous in the Amazon region due to COVID-19 may lead to the decimation of entire communities, say those fighting for indigenous rights.