In remote Amazon, indigenous married Catholics spread gospel, pray for priesthood
Reuters
(Maria Cervantes) Just before dawn, Shainkiam Yampik beats a drum carved from a tree
trunk at the start of a Roman Catholic prayer service in Wijint, a
hamlet of thatched-roof huts in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. Whispering “Jesusan namanguinde,” or “the body of Christ” in the tongue
of the indigenous Achuar people, Yampik gives communion bread to
villagers in a small chapel amid a loud chorus of birds and insects
outside. (...)




















