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Three New Venerables: Two Missionaries in Ecuador and One Indian Bishop

Pope Leo XIV approved decrees on May 22 advancing sainthood causes of Bishop Alejandro Labaka Ugarte, Sister Inés Arango Velásquez, and Bishop Matthew Makil.
Bishop Labaka and Sister Arango were missionaries killed on July 21, 1987, in Ecuador’s Amazon defending Indigenous rights amid oil company incursions.
Bishop Labaka ministered 33 years to Amazon Indigenous peoples and sought mediation, while Sister Arango taught for 20 years before joining the 1977 mission.
Their deaths, pierced by spears and arrows, were recognized as a conscious "offering of life," leading Ecuador to create the Tagaeri Taromenane Intangible Zone to protect Indigenous lands.
Bishop Matthew Makil, born in 1851 in India, promoted education, catechism, and new religious communities, resigning in 1970 to work with Indigenous groups, advancing his cause toward sainthood.

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Thus Inés Arango died, wounded with spears while defending indigenous people in the Ecuadorian jungle: he is about to become a saint TuBarco News The Colombian nun was murdered in 1987 during a peaceful mission with the Tagaeri peoples, a non-contact group. News Colombia. On July 21, 1987, Colombian sister Inés Arango Velásquez was brutally murdered in the depths of the Ecuadorian jungle. Her body was found with multiple spear wounds, along with…

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