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Brazilian court convicts man in 1987 murder of Spanish Jesuit missionary

December 06, 2017

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CWN Editor's Note: Father Vicente CaƱas (1939-87) was the first to evangelize the isolated Enawene Nawe tribe in the Amazon basin. He was stabbed to death by cattle ranchers.

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