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The month of February 2007 finds us preparing and planning our year. Here in Brazil the year actually begins in January/February in the area of government, education, non-prophet organizations, pastoral, etc.  Schools have recently re-opened and pastoral workers are engaged in planning their church activities for the year. In the month of February the famous parade of carnival will kick off and then on Ash Wednesday the National Lenten Campaign (Campanha da Fraternidade) will begin in all Catholic communities throughout Brazil. Each year there is a chosen theme and study. This year it is “Amazonia, Life and Mission on This Soil.”

This is our rainy season and spring/summer yet the four seasons of the year in the southern hemisphere are not as clearly distinguished as in the northern hemisphere. We have witnessed some very serious flooding in some central and southern states and at the same time drought in the north-east.  Many homes have been destroyed; roads eroded and thousand of families made homeless. Violence and corruption have also strongly erupted in many states. Brazil is the largest South American country with many riches and resources but the imbalance of the few rich/powerful and the majority poor/oppressed maintains it as an undeveloped nation. Agrarian Reform, considered one of the main reasons for this inequality, is still stalling.  Many other global inequalities are also to blame.

 This February we also await the visit of one of our central team leaders, Ann Concannon, who will be present for our Region’s Restructuring Assembly, February 23-26. Please keep us in your prayers.