Solar-powered units reciting biblical passages have appeared in the Javari valley, despite strict laws protecting Indigenous groups

“Missionary groups are using audio devices in protected territories of the rainforest to attract and evangelise isolated or recently contacted Indigenous people in the Amazon. A joint investigation by the Guardian and Brazilian newspaper O Globo reveals that solar-powered devices reciting biblical messages in Portuguese and Spanish have appeared among members of the Korubo people in the Javari valley, near the Brazil-Peru border”

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I watched the documentary about the missionary kid who illegally traveled to Sentinel island and was killed by the natives. What was actually more interesting was the documentary also told a parallel story of an older missionary who tried converting one of the uncontacted tribes in South America. He spent so much time there that he learned the language and became friends with them. He ended up becoming a non-believer by the time he left.