Even before the official launch of the Laudato Si' Action Platform, the global program for putting Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical into practice throughout the Catholic Church, the Sisters of Notre Dame ...

TROTWOOD, Ohio (WDTN) — Dozens of people gathered at the Five Rivers MetroParks’ Great Miami Mitigation Bank Saturday morning to honor the life of Sister Dorothy Stang by planting new trees. About 100 ...

Dorothy Stang died many thousands of miles from Denver, murdered in the Amazon rain forest, but her story resonates here in Colorado. Her brother, David, lives in Palmer Lake, and has spent years ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Nearly 20 years after the death of a nun native to Dayton, a relic from the site of her murder will be making its way to Rome. Sister Dorothy Stang was a member of the Sister of ...

A new species of screech owl discovered in the Amazon has been named for Sister Dorothy Stang, a Dayton-born nun. A recently published study in the scientific journal Zootaxa, written by an ...

Editor's note: From the NCR archives comes this March 25, 2005, editorial, in honor of the 12th anniversary of the Feb. 12, 2005, murder of Sr. Dorothy Stang. There’s scarcely an American Catholic ...

A crude cross of tree branches marks the spot where American nun Dorothy Stang died on a red mud road cutting through dense green jungle. It also marks ground zero of a battle over how the Amazon, the ...

Thousands of settlers in bare feet and on motorcycles crowded the Trans-Amazon highway Monday to accompany the coffin of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old American nun slain over the weekend in the ...

Sister Dorothy Stang in a 2004 photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur) / A "Megascops stangiae" seen in an undated photo (CNS photo/Douglas Fernandes, courtesy Global Sisters Report ...

Socio-environmental activists are an endangered species in the Brazilian Amazon, with regularly occurring assassination-style killings like those of activists Chico Mendes in 1988 and Sister Dorothy ...