In Brazil, a Brazilian rancher appeared in court Monday to face charges for the killing of a U.S.-born Catholic nun in the Amazon rainforest. Vitalmiro de Moura is accused of paying gunmen to murder 73-year-old Sister Dorothy Stang in Feburary 2005. Sister Stang dedicated her life to the people of the Amazon rainforest. She lived and worked in Brazil for more than 30 years. She had been trying to stop illegal logging by de Moura. In the weeks before Dorothy Stang was murdered, ranchers had been trying to expel the farmers by burning down their huts. Dorothy Stang was shot dead as she read from her Bible. This is her brother, David Stang.

David Stang: “Why were the people so afraid to even come up and touch her? What is that fear, that terrorizing, the enslavement in that area that no one would even come? None of her friends, no one came to hug her or support her. Is that not a sign that thieves and the thugs control the Amazon?”