Nun's dream lives on

"When are we going to realize that the Earth belongs to every human being? " By Colleen O'Connor The Denver Post At his home in Palmer Lake, David Stang, right, says he is "the living spokesperson for Dorothy." A documentary, "They Killed Sister Dorothy," will be featured this fall at the Denver Film Festival. PALMER LAKE — David Stang knew about the death threats against his sister, a 73-year-old Roman Catholic nun fighting to save the Amazon rainforests of Brazil. Most of the time, he took it in stride. But the morning before her murder, when she called him at 4 a.m., he knew something was wrong. He still remembers their last conversation. In his pitch-dark bedroom on that cold February morning in 2005, David listened closely to his sister. She said 10 villages had been burned in an attempt to scare off the farmers, and... [read full story]