Memória, fé e resistência: as comunidades eclesiais de base no Sul e Sudeste do Pará nos anos finais da Ditadura Militar (1980-1985)

Abstract

This paper presents a study on the Ecclesial Base Communities in the Diocese of Marabá - Southeastern Pará - during the Civil-Military Dictatorship. The objective is to understand the contribution of the Catholic Christian Base Communities to the social movements of resistance to the arbitrary rule established in Brazil since 1964, with emphasis on the actions of the Catholic Church and its mobilization through the organization of people and social groups located in the rural area of the Amazon. To this end, official documents of the National Information Service were analyzed, referring to surveillance and repression of the activities developed by Catholic social pastorals, the newspaper O Grito da PA-150, which carried articles about the struggles of rural workers for access to land, and oral reports obtained through interviews with pastoral agents who worked in base communities at the time to understand how these communities were organized and their contribution to the formation of political leaders in Pará, which influenced the formation of social movements in the struggle for land and for agrarian reform. The work demonstrates that the Base Ecclesial Communities became an important space for political formation and democratic values, which favored the rearticulation of social movements in the southeast of Pará.