Amoim Aruká, the last surviving man of the exterminated Brazilian indigenous people Juma, died at the age of 86, a victim of COVID-19, in a hospital in Porto Velho, capital of the Amazonian state of Rondonia (northern Brazil), where he had been hospitalized due to complications from the new coronavirus.

The program UniMissional in UniCesumar, one of the largest private universities in Brazil, is receiving funds from the Ministry of Education (MEC) to produce evangelical missionaries who will convert indigenous people.

Religious authorities in Panama have been accused of impregnating girls and forcing them to have abortions. Residents and staff from at least 14 different shelters committed physical and mental abuse.

A subcommittee of Parliament last week presented a report detailing that dozens of minors were sexually abused as well as physically and psychologically mistreated in 14 state-supervised shelters.

The pandemic is only worsening a crisis that goes back for years in a country whose history includes censorship of the press and attacks against journalists.

The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) occupation, Zumbi dos Palmares, located in Campo dos Goytacazes in Rio de Janeiro, has seen great rise in the number of evangelicals as well as a large drop in Catholics in the past decade.

High-ranking members of Peruvian society get vaccinations in secret even as healthcare personnel continue to die from COVD-19.

The importance of feminist organizations is highlighted as they fight for a more feminist Brazil.

National Police in Panama detected nine clandestine carnival parties despite restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Health.

Nourishment Cards from the Ministerio de Desarrollo Social support more than one million parents.