One year after lay Catholic’s murder in Honduras, Church makes progress in the defense of environmental activists

One year after lay Catholic’s murder in Honduras, Church makes progress in the defense of environmental activists

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – One year after the murder of Juan Antonio López, a lay Catholic and environmental activist in Honduras, the Latin American Church keeps asking for justice – and campaigning for the protection of other defenders of the common house who have a price on their heads. López, who was 46 years old, was a critic of an iron oxide open-pit mine in the forest reservation of Botaderos and had been receiving threats. In October of 2023, t…