aymara'S ARCHIVE

• Faith Calls Us to be Neighbors: Aymara Hospitality

  
  

  • By Jean & Lee Lechtenberg
  • On December 24, 2017

  Editor’s note: As a part of FMS’ 2017 Advent blog series, returned missioner Lee Lechtenberg shares an experience of hospitality while adventuring the Inca trail with fellow missioners in Bolivia. Our journey began in the […]

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• Embrace language on International Mother Language Day

  
  

  • By Mary and Nate Mortenson
  • On February 21, 2015

  Editor’s Note: The following post is written by Nate Mortenson. Viviana (mentioned in the post) is fourth on the right in the featured image. I want to share a story from a former teacher of […]

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• Praise for Brother Sun – Happy Aymara New Year!

  
  

  • By Franciscan Mission Service
  • On June 21, 2012

  Thousands of Bolivians gathered this morning on Inka Rakay, a mountain sacred to the Aymara people, to greet the sun rise that marks the winter solstice and their new year.  Pilgrims wave the Andean flag, […]

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• “To be consoled as to console” – Leonel and his father

  
  

  • By Franciscan Mission Service
  • On March 19, 2012

  The students of the rural Unidad Académica Campesina – Carmen Pampa overcome many obstacles to receive a college education in Bolivia.  The indigenous Quechua and Aymara peoples have little access to health care or education and survive […]

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