15 Years Ago, Missionary Dorothy Stang, 73, Was Murdered in Par

[Judi Lynn]

Nun was killed in an ambush in the PDS (Sustainable Development Project) area in the Esperança settlement
Feb.12.2020 12:11PM

Cristiano Cipriano Pombo
SÃO PAULO
Fifteen years ago, the American nun Dorothy Mae Stang was shot to death at the age of 73 in Anapu, Pará.

The missionary was killed with six shots, in an ambush, in the area of the PDS (Sustainable Development Project) in the Esperança settlement.

Dorothy had Brazilian citizenship and worked with the CPT (Pastoral Land Commission), an arm of the Catholic Church that works with rural workers. Two men approached her at a farmers' meeting in Anapu, on February 12, 2005.



File Photo- Dorothy May Stang, (Carlos Silva/Divulgação) - Divulgação

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice because they will be fed up." So, with the Bible in hand, Dorothy Stang read to her killers the passage - and two others - before she was shot. When asked if she was armed, she displayed the Bible and said it was her "only weapon."

An eyewitness recounted the crime scene to Folha. The person also said that there was an argument.

Dorothy asked them not to plant grass in the PDS, as it disturbed the settlers' gardens. Clodoaldo Carlos Batista, Eduardo, replied that if she uprooted the grass they planted, it would put lives at risk. Rayfran das Neves Sales, Fogoió, then stepped away and shot her.

More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2020/02/15-years-ago-missionary-dorothy-stang-73-was-murdered-in-para.shtml

[Joinfortmill]

1. Tragic

[emmaverybo]

2. There are saints. She was very much loved. I remember how horrible, but at least she had lived

her life. Now 15 years later, I am a year younger than she. Her life was cut short in a terrible way. If there is a heaven, she is in it. If not, she is in hearts. Thank you for remembering her, Judi Lynn.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I don't think I can ever forget her, either, emmaverybo. She loved the people so much.

She worked constantly to find ways to protect them from the wealthy, greedy landowner/thieves who would stop at nothing. Her face is firmly planted in my memory since the day the hired hitmen shot her down in front of them as they sat on horses, left her lying below them in the dirt.











This is what a nun-killer, a good samaritan
killer looks like: Bida Moura, wealthy
landowner who sent the killers.

VITALMIRO BASTOS MOURA - "Bida" Moura