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Dorothy Stang, 1931-2005

Support for Sister Dorothy Stang

Hundreds of people gathered in a park across from the federal courthouse in Belem, Brazil for the start of the trial of the rancher accused of hiring gunmen to kill Sister Dorothy Stang, Vitalmiro Moura. A tent city cropped up and the people stayed through the trial to show their support for Sister Dorothy Stang.
Staff photo by Lisa Powell

Dayton Daily News columnist Mary McCarty and staff photographer Lisa Powell have been chronicling the life of Dorothy Stang for more than two years. McCarty's first story on Stang, accompanied by a Powell photograph, ran in the Daily News on Feb. 20, 2005. For Martyr of the Amazon, the three-part series on Stang's life, McCarty and Powell traveled to Brazil and to the area of the Amazon where Stang is revered as an almost mythic figure.

PART 1

'Martyr whose blood is still wet'

> Stang was an angel of mercy to the poor, but a threat to ranchers

PART 2

The people vs. a corrupt system

> The gunmen are convicted; will those who hired them get away?

PART 3

'She is loved by everyone'

> Dorothy's spirit lives on


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