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Parintins, Brazil…
April 5, 2025 What would you do for your wife? How much is too much? How much is too little? Is there anything you wouldn’t do? I forgot to mention your wife is pregnant. You are overflowing with love. Like many pregnant women your wife is having cravings. But she isn’t craving ice cream or…
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Lessons from Brazil…
April 8, 2025 On one side you have Catholicism brought by the Portuguese colonization and on the other African spirituality brought through the brutal legacy of slavery. In a country where faith is everywhere it is not uncommon for someone to light a candle in a Catholic church and then leave flowers in the river…
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Devil’s Island, French Guiana…
April 9, 2025 (If you hit the word BLOG at the top of the page you will return to Page 1 and can read our blog of January 11, 2024, which talks about our first visit to Devils Island.) Missionaries from the mainland of South America sought refuge from disease on these three islands just…
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Mindelo, Cape Verde…
April 12, 2025 Like many isolated islands, today’s port of Mindelo on the island of Sāo Vincente in the country of Cape Verde is one of 10 islands that were uninhabited when Portuguese explorers discovered them. Lying in the mid-Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Senegal in West Africa, Cape Verde later played a key…