The Bishop, The Bullets & The Bodyguards

Churchgoers attend Mass held by Bishop Erwin Krautzer in Altamira, an Amazonian frontier capital in the Brazilian state of Para. The town on the Trans-amazonian highway is a hotbed for illegal logging, labor, land-grabbing and human rights abuses as ranchers and loggers resort to extremes in their advance on the Amazon forest. Ever since the murder of 73-year-old American nun Dorothy Stang in February 2005, the Catholic Bishop of Altamira, Austrian-born Krautzer, 68, has been under armed guard. But Stang, an adamant defender of the poor in the Amazon, probably did more in death than in life to help them - her murder brought worldwide attention to the region and in the aftermath, the federal government has created environmental reserves and established a Federal Police office.(AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

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Churchgoers attend Mass held by Bishop Erwin Krautzer in Altamira, an Amazonian frontier capital in the Brazilian state of Para. The town on the Trans-amazonian highway is a hotbed for illegal logging, labor, land-grabbing and human rights abuses as ranchers and loggers resort to extremes in their advance on the Amazon forest. Ever since the murder of 73-year-old American nun Dorothy Stang in February 2005, the Catholic Bishop of Altamira, Austrian-born Krautzer, 68, has been under armed guard. But Stang, an adamant defender of the poor in the Amazon, probably did more in death than in life to help them - her murder brought worldwide attention to the region and in the aftermath, the federal government has created environmental reserves and established a Federal Police office.(AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

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