A court in Brazil May 1 sentenced a second rancher to 30 years in prison for ordering the murder in 2005 of Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Dorothy Stang, who defended poor peasants and opposed the ...

A new species of screech owl discovered in the Amazon has been named for Sister Dorothy Stang, a Dayton-born nun. A recently published study in the scientific journal Zootaxa, written by an ...

TROTWOOD, Ohio (WDTN) — Dozens of people gathered at the Five Rivers MetroParks’ Great Miami Mitigation Bank Saturday morning to honor the life of Sister Dorothy Stang by planting new trees. About 100 ...

The murder of a 73-year-old nun in a remote region of Brazil might seem tragic, but isolated – if it weren’t for the fact Sister Dorothy Stang was fighting one of the defining battles of planet Earth.

SPRINGFIELD — In “The Godfather,” young Michael Corleone shows his “business” smarts when he insists that no matter what the man who arranged for the shooting says, Vito Corleone’s death is the key to ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Nearly 20 years after the death of a nun native to Dayton, a relic from the site of her murder will be making its way to Rome. Sister Dorothy Stang was a member of the Sister of ...

Brazilian military police say another suspect has been arrested in connection with the 2005 murder of Dayton native Sister Dorothy Stang, according to the French Catholic newspaper LaCroix ...

SAO PAULO - A Brazilian rancher's conviction for the murder of a U.S. nun in the Amazon could help discourage attacks on rain forest activists that for decades have largely gone unpunished, ...

Even before the official launch of the Laudato Si' Action Platform, the global program for putting Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical into practice throughout the Catholic Church, the Sisters of Notre Dame ...

On Feb. 12, 2005, two hired gunmen killed Sister Dorothy Stang, 73, as she read aloud from the Bible in a remote settlement just off the Trans-Amazonian Highway. As a tireless advocate for the poor ...

PARA, Brazil (RNS) Ten years ago, Stang was killed advocating for land rights in the Amazon. The government promised an end to impunity from punishment. A decade later, violence and impunity persist.

Whether an investigation will result in punishment for the killers — or those who hired them — is uncertain. More than 1,000 rural activists, small farmers, religious workers and others fighting ...