GAM Caldogno

Who is:

Father Renato Trevisan is a missionary in Brazil, the Congregation "Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions" in Parma, known as "Xaverian".

Born in Caldogno December 4, 1943, he completed all his studies at the Institute Xaverian: Bachelor's degree in theology (Rome), pedagogical studies (in Guernica in Spain), English (London), courses in linguistics, anthropology and missiology (Brazil and Ecuador).
Ordained in 1970, is engaged in the first eight years to Brescia in the seminary as an animator and trainer of the Xaverian. So for Brazil.

For two years he was pastor at St. Felix do Xingu (Pará state), but then he devoted himself entirely to the Indians, even going to live in the village of Kayapo Kikretum. It also follows the Indians Assuriní, Arawete, Parakanà, Arara, all small groups who live along the Xingu River.
In 1987, for two years, regional coordinator of the Indigenous Pastoral (Pará and Amapá).
From 1993 to 1995, Regional Superior of the Xaverian Missionaries of the Amazon.
From 1995 to 2001 he was Director General of the Xaverian based in Rome. Visit villages and missions in which there are the Xaverian.
In 2002 he departed for Brazil-Amazon, even among the Kayapó Indians, with the center of activity at Redenção (in the south of the state of Pará).
He spent some months in Italy in 2008 as a trainer of theologians, but in December it is still in Brazil, in the Diocese of Conceição do Araguaia, to work with and for the Kayapo Indians.

Where it operates:

where there are Indians, there is also the father Renato. Its mission is carried out mainly Redencao hours, still among the Kayapo, who come from the forest.
This is a large town of 60,000 inhabitants, the region south of Pará, located on the road linking the northern and southern Brazil. The area is predominantly commercial and agricultural activities. There are many houses and shacks many, many roads are dusty, there is no river worthy of being called "the river". For some time the forest has given way to the breeding of cattle and enormous "ranches" and the Indians have gone to town.
The impact with the city and all that it offers a different and alternative to life in the forest is causing a number of problems with the Kayapo Indians and the inhabitants of Redenção and problems from the past few years have become part of the pastoral challenges urgent the Catholic church, but also for society in general.

Activities:

In this context, Father Renato is the missionary knew that the Indians found in the forest in order to feel at home, in terms of togetherness, solidarity, respect for what each is, has produced and produces in terms of history and culture.

A Redenção the Indians are welcome and small businesses, which favor a less traumatic contact with the environment so different from each other and at the same time the answers to the needs they came to town. They are not beggars, but those who earn their food with their work. Here are assisted in need of help from the government offices, health services, in emergency situations that require quick answers and solutions (issues of land, exploitation of the forest, transportation, infrastructure needed in the villages).

Another key area is education (school) in particular for young Kayapo. It is becoming more urgent because the cultural, human and Christian leaders with a view to assume roles in their villages, roles still held by government officials (teachers, technicians, administrators, nurses).

Contact:

MISSIONÁRIOS XAVERIANOS
CX. POSTAL 141
68550-000 - Redenção (PA)
(BRAZIL)

or:

Father Renato Trevisan
MISSIONÁRIOS XAVERIANOS
Rua Castro Alves, No 3
Setor Alto Parana
68550-000 - Redenção (PA)
(BRAZIL)

E-mail: renatotre@libero.it