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Dorothy Stang, the Glossary

Dorothy Mae Stang, SND (June 7, 1931 – February 12, 2005) was an American-born Brazilian member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.^[1]

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Anapu

Anapu is a city in Pará, Brazil.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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The Beatitudes are sayings of Jesus, and in particular eight or nine blessings recounted by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, and four in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke, followed by four woes which mirror the blessings.

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Belém

Belém (Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Calumet City, Illinois

Calumet City is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Ceará

Ceará is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast.

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Chico Mendes

Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes (15 December 1944 – 22 December 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader, and environmentalist. Dorothy Stang and Chico Mendes are Brazilian environmentalists, deaths by firearm in Brazil, environmental killings and Forestry in Brazil.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Coroatá

Coroatá is a municipality in Maranhão.

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Court of Justice (Brazil)

A court of Justice in Brazil (tribunal de Justiça; TJ) is any of the 27 appellate courts in Brazil, one per federative unit.

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Cowspiracy

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a 2014 American documentary film produced and directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn.

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Daniel Junge

Daniel Junge (born October 7, 1969) is an American documentary filmmaker.

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Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.

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Death threat

A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Encompass New Opera Theatre

Encompass New Opera Theatre is a professional opera company located in New York City which specializes in premiering new productions, and reviving 20th century operas by American and international composers.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Environment of Brazil

The environment of Brazil is characterized by high biodiversity with a population density that decreases away from the coast.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil, prior to European contact around 1500 AD.

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John J. Danilovich

John Joseph Danilovich (born 25 June 1950) is an American business executive who was secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce from 2014 – 2018.

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José Cláudio da Silva

José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva (January 22, 1957 – May 24, 2011) was a Brazilian conservationist and environmentalist who campaigned against logging and clearcutting of trees in the Amazon rainforest. Dorothy Stang and José Cláudio da Silva are Brazilian environmentalists, deaths by firearm in Brazil, environmental killings, forest conservation, Forestry in Brazil and people murdered in Brazil.

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Lawyer

A lawyer is a person who practices law.

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Maranhão

Maranhão is a state in Brazil.

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Martin Sheen

Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. Dorothy Stang and Martin Sheen are Roman Catholic activists.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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Notre Dame de Namur University

Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) is a private Catholic university in Belmont, California.

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O Dia

O Dia (The Day) is a major daily newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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O Globo

O Globo (The Globe) is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro.

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Pará

Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River.

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Primary school

A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.

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Religious sister

A religious sister (abbreviated: Sr.) in the Catholic Church is a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer and labor, or a canoness regular, who provides a service to the world, either teaching or nursing, within the confines of the monastery.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Coroatá

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Coroatá (Dioecesis Coroatensis) is a diocese located in the city of Coroatá in the ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão in Brazil.

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Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (Congregationis Sororum a Domina Nostra Namurcensi) is a Catholic institute of religious sisters, founded to provide education to the poor.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas.

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Superior Court of Justice (Brazil)

The Superior Court of Justice (Superior Tribunal de Justiça, also known as STJ) is the highest appellate court in Brazil for non-constitutional issues regarding federal law.

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Supreme Federal Court

The Federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal,, abbreviated STF) is the supreme court (court of last resort) of Brazil, serving primarily as the country's Constitutional Court.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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They Killed Sister Dorothy

They Killed Sister Dorothy is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Daniel Junge about Dorothy Stang, an American-born Brazilian nun who was murdered on February 12, 2005, in Anapu, a city located in the Amazon Rainforest. Dorothy Stang and they Killed Sister Dorothy are forest conservation and Forestry in Brazil.

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Title 18 of the United States Code

Title 18 of the United States Code is the main criminal code of the federal government of the United States.

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Trial

In law, a trial is a coming together of parties to a dispute, to present information (in the form of evidence) in a tribunal, a formal setting with the authority to adjudicate claims or disputes.

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United States Attorney

United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts.

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Vicente Cañas

Vicente Cañas, S.J. (October 22, 1939 – April 6, 1987) was a Spanish Christian missionary and Jesuit brother, born in Alborea, Albacete, who is credited with making the first peaceful contact with the Enawene Nawe Indian tribe in 1974. Dorothy Stang and Vicente Cañas are environmental killings, forest conservation, Forestry in Brazil and people murdered in Brazil.

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Villa Park, Illinois

Villa Park is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, within the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Wagner Moura

Wagner Maniçoba de Moura (born 27 June 1976) is a Brazilian actor, director and filmmaker.

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Wilson Pinheiro

Wilson Pinheiro (died in 1980) was the president of the Brasiléia Rural Workers Union in the State of Acre in Brazil. Dorothy Stang and Wilson Pinheiro are deaths by firearm in Brazil, environmental killings, forest conservation, Forestry in Brazil and people murdered in Brazil.

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