Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Catholic nun and activist, was brutally murdered in February 2005 in the Brazilian rain forest state of Pará. For three decades, she had championed the cause of environmentalists and underprivileged local communities, standing up against the exploitation of powerful loggers and landowners.
They Killed Sister Dorothy
Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Catholic nun and activist, dedicated three decades to advocating for the rights of environmentalists and the underprivileged in the Brazilian rainforest before her brutal murder.