• Dom Roque Paloschi, president of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) and archbishop of Porto Velho in the state of Roraima, Brazil, has been under attack because he denounced Indigenous people’s rights violations.
• It has always been risky to live in Amazonia and defend social-environmental issues, but Paloschi says the situation has worsened greatly in the last four years — the period that coincides with Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.
• In 2021, 355 attacks against Indigenous people were reported in Brazil — the most since 2013, according to a CIMI report. 
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Source: Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass