Brazil: on the eve of elections, Haddad up, Bolsonaro down
São Paulo, October 23. On the eve of the second round of the presidential elections, armed police and officials from electoral tribunals invaded at...
The Mad Hatter’s tea-party: Bolsonaro chooses his cabinet
São Paulo, 3 December: During the election campaign, president-elect Jair Bolsonaro boasted he would pare the number of cabinet ministers down from its present...
To end Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
In November-December 2018 Christian Aid promoted a Month of Awareness of Gender Based Violence, working with its partners in the region, around the International...
Bolsonaro’s people: the Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen Ricardo Salles as Brazil’s environment minister. The former São Paulo state government environment secretary is under investigation for...
Water for Life
On 22 March, World Water Day, CONIC, Christian Aid and CREAS launched an online training course for faith communities in Brazil: 'Water for Life....
Bolsonaro: from bananas to pineapples
São Paulo, April 5: ‘If he sees a banana skin on the pavement across the road, he will cross over to slip on it’,...
Voices in New York – LAB Newsletter April 2019
26 April 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The shocking suicide of former President Alan García, as police arrived to arrest, may have been planned in...
The Synod on the Amazon
A synod is a meeting of representatives of Church
communities to discuss issues of doctrine or Church governance. So far, for most people, so boring. ...
N.E.Brazil: church mission denounces water inequality
Brazil is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world
and contains 20% of the Earth´s water springs – but all this is threatened...
We are the Amazon
After the
Catholic Church started the preparation for its Amazon Synod, Christian Aid’s Latin
America and the Caribbean division worked with faith-based organisations across
the region. Together...