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Brazilian deputies call for ceasefire in Gaza Strip

Brazilian deputies call for ceasefire in Gaza Strip
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November 9 |

A total of 61 Brazilian deputies signed a letter Wednesday to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand the summoning of Brazil’s ambassador to Israel for consultations.

On the same day, the deputy of ParlaSur, Erika Hilton, proposed to the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) to suspend the agreements with Israel, as a way of pressure to stop the siege on the people of Palestine.

The letter signed by 61 Brazilian parliamentarians, which was presented during an act in the Chamber of Deputies, asks President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to summon the Brazilian ambassador to Israel, Frederico Meyer, imitating the action already taken by Chile, Colombia and Honduras.

“We ask the Brazilian government to recall the Brazilian ambassador to Israel for consultations and not to enact the military and security cooperation agreements signed by (former president Jair) Bolsonaro with Israel,” the text mentioned.

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The letter recalled a resolution approved by a large majority of the member countries of the United Nations (UN) to demand an urgent ceasefire, “but Israel has declared that it has no intention of stopping and has intensified attacks against the Palestinian people”.

Congresswoman Jandira Feghali stressed the need to show a tougher stance towards Israel, although she qualified that this will happen once the Brazilians in Gaza are evacuated.

More than 30 Brazilians and their families are still in the southern Gaza Strip, waiting to be able to leave the territory.

In the session that took place in the Chamber of Deputies, the Palestinian ambassador to Brazil, Ibrahim Alzaben, gave a speech in the plenary, where he assured that “the independence and liberation of the Palestinian people are closer than ever”.

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The bishop sat silently near the front row, hands clasped, as Indigenous leaders and Church workers spoke about the threats facing the forests of northern Peru, deep within the Amazon. It was 2016, one year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment.

When it was his turn to speak, the bishop didn’t preach—even though the gathering was taking place in his own city, Chiclayo, where he was hosting a regional meeting. Instead, he reflected on what he had witnessed.

“I believe it’s a very important encyclical,” he said. “It also marks a new step in the Church’s explicit expression of concern for all of creation.”

That bishop, Robert Prevost, is now Pope Leo XIV.

“He was always warm and approachable,” recalled Laura Vargas, secretary of the Interreligious Council of Peru, who helped organize the event, in a phone interview with The Associated Press.

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“He had a strong interest in a socially engaged ministry, very close to the people. That’s why, when we proposed holding the event in his diocese, he welcomed it without hesitation,” she added.

Since then, Prevost has strengthened ties with environmental interfaith networks like the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative and Indigenous organizations such as AIDESEP, which place forest protection and rights at the heart of Church concerns.

These credentials have given hope to clergy and the faithful across the Amazon region—a vast area of 48 million people and 6.7 million square kilometers (2.6 million square miles) in South America. Many see Prevost, who was born in Chicago and spent nearly two decades in rural Peru, as a pope who will protect the region and stand up to climate change.

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Upon his arrival, the first American Pope—who also holds Peruvian nationality—blessed those awaiting him and even signed a Bible for a young girl.

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“It’s an option we are actively considering, and it all depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not,” Miller stated.

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