Pope Leo XIV has lent his support to the Yanomani people as they work with partners to recover from humanitarian crisis and ...

Yanomami, pictured in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas in 2012, number around 27,000 in Brazil – Copyright POOL/AFP Francisco Seco Brazil said Monday it would ...

Government efforts to evict several thousand illegal miners from the Yanomami Indigenous Territory have so far been insufficient, as organized crime groups work with miners to confront state agents.

Illegal miners have adapted their tactics in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory as Brazilian authorities seek to remove all ...

Brazilian officials say they have nearly rid Indigenous Yanomami territory in the northern Amazon of the thousands of miners who had been operating illegally in the region. More than a year later, ...

Swiss-born photographer Claudia Andujar has spent five decades fighting to protect the rights of Brazil's Yanomami tribe. But the feisty octogenarian says her battle is not over. Andujar began ...

ALTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- Armed government officials with Brazil's justice, Indigenous and environment ministries pressed illegal gold miners out of Yanomami Indigenous territory Wednesday, citing ...

Pope Francis met Wednesday with a leader of Brazil's Yanomami people, who asked for papal backing for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 's efforts to reverse decades of exploitation of the Amazon ...

The spread of the new coronavirus is “completely out of control” on the Yanomami indigenous reservation in Brazil, where cases have nearly quadrupled in three months, according to a report published ...

Kopenawa, who wore a traditional feathered headdress and beads around his neck, told reporters afterward he gave Francis a letter laying out the concerns of the Yanomami. He said he asked for Francis ...