Brazil accuses US missionary of putting isolated tribe's lives at risk

Brazil accuses US missionary of putting isolated tribe's lives at risk
Indigenous agency says Steve Campbell entered tribal lands
‘The probability of transmission of diseases … is high’

Reuters in Rio de Janeiro
Wed 23 Jan 2019 18.44 EST

Brazil’s indigenous affairs department (Funai) has accused an American missionary of exposing an isolated indigenous tribe to disease and possibly death.

Steve Campbell, a Christian missionary, entered the area occupied by the Hi-Merimã tribe last month, one of the few dozen tribes in Brazil that has had no contact with the outside world.

“It’s a case of rights violation and exposure to risk of death to isolated indigenous population,” a Funai spokesman said in a written statement to Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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Experts have warned that there is an increasing likelihood of missionaries trying to contact isolated tribes in Brazil after the country’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, appointed an evangelical preacher as the new minister in charge of indigenous affairs.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/23/brazil-us-missionary-isolated-tribe-lives-at-risk-steve-campbell

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Steve and Robin work in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Their work is to help with medical, mechanical and countless other ministry opportunites.

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