Sister dorothy stang early life!
Sr. Dorothy Stang chose to live in extreme poverty in order to help others living in poverty.
Sister dorothy stang death
She had a passion for people of all cultures, for social justice, peacemaking, fairness, and respect for the environment. She possessed few material things: a mix-match of colorful clothing, spartan furnishings and her Bible, which she carried everywhere and sometimes called it her “weapon.”
On a rain-soaked Saturday in February 2005, she carried that Bible while making her way along a muddy Amazon jungle road.
She was headed to Boa Esperança, a village near Anapu, where she lived in the northern Brazil state of Para. The area lies on the eastern edge of the Amazon, a region known for its wealth of natural resources and the violence that boils over from land disputes.
Waiting for Sr.
Dorothy that morning was a group of peasant farmers whose homes had been burned down to the ground on the land which the federal government had granted to these farmers. In the entire state of Para and in a p