Vatican to consider married priests for Amazon region in historic shift
Catholic pilgrims in the Caraparu River in Santa Izabel do Para - REUTERS/ The Vatican has suggested allowing married men to become priests in the Amazon, in an unprecedented move that could pave the way for similar reforms in other parts of the world. There is a drastic shortage of Catholic priests in the jungles, swamps and townships of the Amazon Basin, which is home to around 30 million people, millions of them indigenous. It is a vast area that extends across the boundaries of nine countries, from Peru and Bolivia to Brazil and Surinam ...
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