Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous
by Sue Branford on 17 March 2020
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Ethnos360, an evangelical Christian missionary group, is embarking on a controversial new project, just as the coronavirus begins spreading widely in Brazil.
The organization, formerly known internationally as the New Tribes Mission, and based in Sanford, Florida, USA, plans to use a newly purchased aircraft to contact and convert isolated Amazon indigenous groups even though such contact is banned explicitly by FUNAI, Brazils indigenous agency, and implicitly under the nations 1988 Constitution.
The fundamentalist Christian groups venture could also spread dangerous infectious diseases, like COVID-19, to isolated tribes utterly lacking resistance and immunity.
At the end of January, Edward Luz, president of New Tribes Mission of Brazil, announced the acquisition of the Ethnos360 Aviation R66 helicopter, able to operate in the remote rainforests of Western Brazil, and he told a small group of Christian evangelicals assembled in Rio de Janeiro, that: God will do anything to see to it that mankind hears His Word. If a helicopter becomes necessary, He provides it.
More:
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/bringing-christ-and-coronavirus-evangelicals-to-contact-amazon-indigenous/
Why can't these racist lunatics be stopped?
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Honestly the Soviet Union couldnt stop them from smuggling Bibles into that country and they were a police state. How can anyone expect a marginal democracy to do better?
3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)--- one at a time.
I would be willing to contribute to their air fare.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Hence their survival.
Some of them use GPS to mark the exact legal bounds, and well-aimed arrows will greet anybody who gets too close. Better hope the arrows aren't poison-tipped.
thecrow
(5,519 posts)but get off the ground again?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Missionary style.