“We celebrate this Christmas in union with our brothers and sisters in the Amazonia.  In these lands we glorify God and join with the cries of the land, the cries of the poor, the promotion of an integral education and the plea to God to send us more workers to his harvest, to inspire in the Order and in the Church the desire of voluntary collaboration to announce the Gospel.” As we celebrate God becoming incarnate in our […]

Contemplate “I dream of Christian communities capable of giving themselves and becoming incarnated in the Amazonia, to the point of giving the Church new faces with Amazonian features”. With the words of Pope Francis, we want to invite all of us who make up the great Dominican Family to dream and be encouraged to be part of the missionary community in the Amazonia of the Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado in Peru. These missions have their roots in the […]

Contemplate  Among the complexities of the Amazonian territory, we highlight the fragility of education, especially among indigenous peoples. Although education is a human right, the quality of education is poor and school dropout rates are high, especially among girls. Education evangelizes, promotes social transformation, empowering people with a holy critical sense. “A good school education at an early age lays seeds that can produce lifelong effects” (LS 213). It is our task to promote an education for solidarity, […]

Contemplate  The cry of the poor in the Amazon refers to the concerns and protests of the indigenous, rural and poor communities living in the Amazonia region of South America. These communities have been fighting for decades for the protection of their rights, the preservation of their ancestral lands and the conservation of the environment in the Amazonia, which is one of the most biodiverse and ecologically important areas in the world.  Some of the main issues and […]