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 ...

She helped build schools, taught Amazon settlers the value of the rain forest and helped them fight for their rights in the face of land grabbing and wanton environmental destruction. And for this, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A documentary by a Denver filmmaker has prompted the arrest of a Brazilian rancher who prosecutors say orchestrated the execution of a Roman Catholic nun in ...

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 ...

Next Tuesday, four Brazilian judges will hear an appeal from a rancher convicted of organizing the 2005 murder of Dorothy Stang, an elderly American nun who worked with small farmers in the Amazon ...

A new species of screech owl discovered in the Amazon has been named for Sister Dorothy Stang, a Dayton-born nun. The Xingu screech owl found in the Amazon was given the scientific name, Megascops ...

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 ...

Dorothy B. Stang, a longtime administrative liaison to the postmaster of Chicago, took on one of her most satisfying tasks every December when letters to Santa Claus poured into the post office. Mrs.