Rio Maria
Subtitle: song of the earth
By: Ricardo Rezende ; translated and edited by Madeleine Adriance.
Contributors: Adriance, Madeleine.
Publisher: Orbis; CIIR; Trócaire
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Maryknoll, N.Y; London, England; Dublin Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Figueira, Ricardo Rezende, 1952-  -- Diaries.; Catholic Church -- Brazil -- Rio Maria -- Clergy -- Diaries.; Catholic Church -- Doctrines.; Church work with the poor -- Brazil -- Rio Maria.; Church work with the poor -- Catholic Church.; Rural poor -- Brazil -- Rio Maria -- Religious life.; Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; Rio Maria (Brazil) -- Social conditions.; Brazil -- Social conditions.
Description: "Far north of glittering Rio de Janeiro, the Rio Maria region of the Brazilian Amazon is a land of incredible natural beauty and unbelievable violence. In this book, Fr. Ricardo Rezende, a parish priest and worker for human and environmental rights, gives an eyewitness account of the struggles in the Brazilian rainforest that have made world headlines."--BOOK JACKET.

"Rio Maria is filled with memorable vignettes of a world and people that poignantly reveal a life lived amid the ever-present threat of death. Even as the rainforests are slashed and burned with impunity by wealthy miners and ranchers, so its human inhabitants - the poor farmers and indigenous peoples - are cut down if they stand in the way.

One of the most compelling figures is a devout Catholic unionist and poet, Expedito Ribeiro de Souza, well-known to international human rights groups and a special friend to Rezende. Ultimately, it is Expedito's murder that spurs the people of Rio Maria to join together, at great personal risk, to put an end to the violence."--BOOK JACKET.