Pope laments Amazon’s ‘cry,’ says rainforest and peoples under threat

PUCALLPA, Peru: Pope Leo XIV visited the Peruvian Amazon on Sunday, demanding justice for Indigenous leaders killed defending their territories and warning that environmental destruction was ravaging both the rainforest and its peoples. “The blood of these brothers cries out to God and demands justice,” he told missionaries and representatives of Amazonian peoples in the jungle city of Pucallpa. “The…