Document #1152380
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on a group under the given name
(or an approximate translation of it) could not be found among the
sources currently available to the DIRB.
As discussed, the attached articles provide
some recent references to Catholic church organizations and
activists involved with poor people or neighbourhoods
(favelas) that might be related to the subject of your
request and, thus, may be of interest.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find attached the list of
sources consulted in researching this information request.
Latinamerica Press [Lima]. 11
November 1993. "Church: Brazil," p. 8.
. 21 October 1993. "Church and Power:
Brazilian Church Caught in Vatican Squeeze," p. 4.
News from Americas Watch [New
York]. 31 May 1993. Vol. 5, No. 5. "Urban Police Violence in
Brazil: Torture and Police Killings in S o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
after Five Years," p. 17.
Wiseberg, Laurie S., Guadalupe
López and Sarah Meselson. January 1990. Human Rights
Internet Reporter-Human Rights Directory: Latin America and the
Caribbean. United States/Chile: Human Rights Internet and
Programa de Derechos Humanos de la Academia de Humanismo Cristiano,
p. 156.