By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - An Amazon rancher convicted of ordering the killing of American nun Dorothy Stang has been acquitted in a retrial.

By Zaker, Christina MARTYR OF THE AMAZON By Roseanne Murphy, S.N.D. de N. (Orbis Books, 2007) It is hard to read a book about the life of someone martyred in 2005. There is something jolting about realizing that her life and yours intertwined in time and that her struggle happened as you lived.

A Brazilian farmer has been convicted of ordering the death of a nun working in the Amazon as an activist for laborers and the landless. Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura was sentenced to 30 years in prison, Estado de Sao Paulo reported Wednesday. The U.S.

BELEM, Brazil - A rancher goes to trial today in the killing of an American nun whose death while trying to save the Amazon rain forest now threatens to strip away the impunity of the region's often violent elite.

A Brazilian man accused of ordering the death of a nun working in the Amazon region Monday denied playing a role in her slaying. Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura told a court he had no part in the shooting death of Dorothy Stang in February 2005, Agencia Estado reported Monday.