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Dom Hélder Câmara (1909-1999)

April 20, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Dom Hélder Câmara

Dom Hélder Câmara was archbishop of Olinda and Recife during Brazil’s military dictatorship. A liberation theologian, he helped the poor organize for justice.

Filed Under: Christianity, South America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (b. 1931)

April 13, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel speaking in 2003

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine pacifist, community organizer, and nonviolent activist. He boldy protested the Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970s.

Filed Under: Christianity, South America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Gustavo Gutiérrez (b. 1928)

April 6, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Gustavo Gutiérrez

Gustavo Gutiérrez is a Peruvian theologian and originator of liberation theology, which opposes unjust social and political structures on a biblical basis.

Filed Under: Christianity, South America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Paulo Freire (1921-1997)

April 6, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire was the influential Brazilian eduction theorist who developed critical pedagogy, a philosophy that combines education with critical theory.

Filed Under: Christianity, South America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Mayerly Sánchez (b. 1984)

October 12, 2014 by Daniel Buttry

Photo of Mayerly Sánchez as a young girl

As a 12-year-old girl, Mayerly Sánchez started a children’s peace club in Colombia amid rising gang and guerrilla violence. She was part of the UNICEF workshop that launched the Children’s Movement for Peace. Today, she is one of the most important visionaries pursuing peace in Colombia.

Filed Under: South America, WORLD REGION

Rutilio Grande (1928-1977)

August 25, 2014 by Daniel Buttry

Rutilio Grande

Rutilio Grande was a Jesuit priest who became a martyr for speaking out against violence and poverty in El Salvador in the 1970s.

Filed Under: Christianity, South America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

August 25, 2014 by Daniel Buttry

In the 70s and 80s during a brutal military regime in Argentina, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo demanded justice for loved ones who had “disappeared”.

Filed Under: South America, WORLD REGION

Víctor Jara (1932-1973)

June 30, 2014 by Daniel Buttry

Víctor Jara

Víctor Jara was a Chilean musician who was tortured and murdered during the 1973 Chilean military coup for his public nonviolent activism through song.

Filed Under: South America, WORLD REGION

Daniel Barenboim

January 16, 2014 by David Crumm

Peacemaker and writer Paul Dekar profiles Daniel Barenboim, a Jewish Argentine-born pianist and conductor, in a series for Interfaith Peacemakers Month.

Filed Under: Asia, Judaism, South America

Baruch Tenembaum (b. 1933)

January 1, 2009 by Daniel Buttry

Baruch Tenembaum

Baruch Tenembaum is an Argentine interfaith advocate focusing on Jewish-Christian relationships. He founded the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

Filed Under: Judaism, South America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

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