Vatican City, Aug 18, 2020: Pope Francis has donated ventilators and ultrasound scanners to hospitals in coronavirus-ravaged Brazil. In a Aug. 17 press statement, papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said that 18 Dräger intensive care ventilators and six Fuji portable ultrasound scanners would be shipped to Brazil on the pope’sContinue Reading
The number of priests in Brazil has increased by a tenth in just four years – from 24,600 in 2014 to 27,300 this year. The figures were obtained from the Centre for Social Investigation and Religious Statistics (Ceris), an agency of the bishops’ conference. Folha De Sao Paulo, the daily newspaperContinue Reading
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Police in Brazil officially confirmed on Saturday that the body of a 49-year-old priest was discovered in his residence on the morning of August 24, after he was stabbed to death. According to local media, post-mortem analysis found 29 separate knife wounds on his body. Father Pedro Gomes Bezerra, whoContinue Reading
Brazil will lose about a billion dollars in revenue thanks to a law that turns the Olympics into a tax havenContinue Reading