Anapu attracted international attention on February 12, 2005, when the American-born, naturalized Brazilian citizen Sister Dorothy Stang—member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and advocate for the rural poor of the Amazon Rainforest—was murdered there.
Dorothy L. Sayers | Dorothy Parker | Dorothy Gale | Dorothy | Dorothy Loudon | Dorothy Lamour | Dorothy Dandridge | Dorothy Thompson | Dorothy Day | Dorothy Hamill | Dorothy Stratten | Dorothy McGuire | Dorothy Malone | Dorothy Kirsten | Dorothy Fields | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion | Ivan Stang | Dorothy Wordsworth | Dorothy Perkins | Dorothy Hewett | Dorothy Gish | Dorothy Dunnett | Dorothy de Rothschild | Dorothy Woolfolk | Dorothy Stang | Dorothy Sarnoff | Dorothy Revier | Dorothy Norwood | Dorothy Mueller | Dorothy Kamenshek |
They Killed Sister Dorothy is a 2008 documentary film about American-born Brazilian nun Dorothy Stang, who was murdered on February 12, 2005, in Anapu, a city located in the Amazon Rainforest.