The research report team shows in the report how the passing of the trains compromises the communities living on their margins and how the iron dust from the steel mills infiltrates the houses and threatens the health of an entire village.
In it we can see the village of Piquiá de Baixo (from minute 35) where our Comboni family closely accompanies this reality and the struggle for a resettlement in the neighborhood of Piquiá de la Conquista.
We leave this second video (in Portuguese) from the Justice of the Roads channel of JnT*
* Justiça nos Trilhos works to strengthen communities in the Carajás Corridor in North Eastern Amazonian Brazil and denounce violations of human and environmental rights, holding the state and corporations accountable and preventing new human rights violations.
Divided into four chapters, the first episode shows some of the impacts that one of the largest freight trains in the world leaves in the 28 cities and more than 100 towns it passes through. The large research report reveals how the wealth of mining contrasts with the misery and suffering of the residents of the Carajás railroad, how the lack of pedestrian bridges exposes residents to routine accidents at crossings, and how corruption scandals drain the public coffers of municipalities cut off by the CFE.
In this report we can see the reality of the communities affected by the problems of mining in the northeast of Brazil where the Comboni Family accompanies the communities. Our CLM community has been present for more than 25 years.
We leave this video (in Portuguese) from the Justice of the Roads channel of JnT*
* Justiça nos Trilhos works to strengthen communities in the Carajás Corridor in North Eastern Amazonian Brazil and denounce violations of human and environmental rights, holding the state and corporations accountable and preventing new human rights violations.
January – That our faith in Christ may move us all to be united in alleviating the hardship caused by the pandemic, especially among the poorest. Lord hear us.
We wish you a Holy Christmas and a New Year of 2021 full of great missionary passion
“Do not be afraid. Listen. I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people. Today, in the town of David, a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.” (Lk 2, 10-11)
Dear Confreres, Christmas is near and we are preparing to welcome the God who comes. The message of the angels resounds in the heavens and on the earth. It is clear and unmistakable, bearing joy and hope: Today a saviour is born to you who is Christ and he is Lord. This message is for our Today, for the whole people of Israel and all the peoples of the earth.
Nevertheless, all humanity is living a critical and difficult situation that strikes without distinction. We all bear the burden and the suffering of this pandemic that has exposed our weakness and our limits, revealed our fears and changed our behaviours. Among its victims, there is a large group of confreres who have experienced suffering and even death. We really are all in the same boat and still on the high seas! Despite the pain and feeling lost, there have been many concrete gestures of charity and solidarity so as to be close to the people. In this situation, at once dark and full of light, we have been challenged to read the signs of the times and places through the eyes of faith and discover the presence of God in all things.
It is in this context of suffering and disorientation that we are called to live, in faith, Christmas of this year of 2020. Instead of saying, as many do, that there will be no Christmas this year, we feel a deep need to celebrate it and to stay awake to receive God into our world, to live this event in a spirit of humility and contemplative prayer. He comes every day and in all circumstances; He comes untiringly as the Light that glows in our darkness to make us see reality with a gaze that is both positive and new. He becomes present in the weakness of our flesh to assure us that in it his saving power is revealed. He approaches wounded humanity to heal it and stir up in all a desire for brotherhood. He appears at the dawn of a new day that conquers fear and opens the way to Hope. Fixing our gaze on the God-child of Bethlehem, we realise that all of humanity is touched by his Presence, so often hidden in the events of history. He truly is the Emmanuel. If we allow ourselves to become involved in the mystery of the incarnation, we will be full of wonder and gratitude.
During his visit to Bethlehem, Comboni is moved at seeing the very place where Jesus was born: I entered it and, however much birth is more joyful than death, I was nonetheless more moved than on Calvary, at the thought of the condescension of a God who humbled himself to the point of being born in this stable (W 111). We too should allow ourselves to be moved by his presence in our daily lives and in the midst of the people among whom we live. The birth of the God-Child moves us to discover Him in people, especially the poorest and rejected, and to travel the roads of life together with them. We are invited to break the shell of indifference and individualism, to build up an open brotherhood where each person is recognised beyond the place in the world where he was born and where he lives (cf. Brothers All, 1). The contemplation of the Word made flesh leads us to conversion, to choose simple lifestyles and to concentrate on the Essential.
The difficult situation in which we find ourselves is an appeal to be attentive to the signs of God in history to find the new pathways of the mission. The contemplation of the Incarnation of God fills us with gratitude and wonder and opens us up to solidarity and an impassioned commitment on behalf of our poorest and most abandoned brothers and sisters, in the footsteps of Saint Daniel Comboni.
We wish to live this Christmas together with all of humanity, letting ourselves be transported by the love that emanates from the stable of Bethlehem and makes us signs of joy and hope. May the Virgin Mary, who waited for the Saviour in a special way and accompanied him from his birth to his death on the Cross, guide us on our oftentimes tiresome journey and transform us into witnesses of the Salvation brought by Jesus.
We wish you a Holy Christmas and a New Year of 2021 full of great missionary passion as we journey towards the XIX General Chapter.
The MCCJ General Council
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