Jair Bolsonaro
Soccer player Paulinho won’t let intolerance of his Afro-Brazilian religion stop his faith
By Mauricio Savarese — September 29, 2023
LAGOA SANTA, Brazil (AP) — Academics and religious-freedom advocates say that Afro-Brazilian religions are sometimes demonized in neo-Pentecostal churches.
Christians represented significant faction of capital rioters in Brazil
By Eduardo Campos Lima — January 17, 2023
SÃO PAULO (RNS) — At least four evangelical pastors were among those arrested in the aftermath of the attack.
Presidential standoff becomes a holy war in Brazil
By Eduardo Campos Lima — October 28, 2022
(RNS) — A runoff election in Latin America's largest country increasingly includes the religious culture-war tactics employed in US politics.
Brazil’s Lula issues letter to evangelicals to allay concern
By Mauricio Savarese — October 20, 2022
SAO PAULO (AP) — The letter promised he would respect religious freedoms if elected.
In sacred Brazil dunes, critics see evangelical encroachment
By David Biller — September 29, 2022
(AP) — Afro Brazilian religious groups see a public works project at the Abaete dunes as an attempt to Christianize yet another public space, part of evangelicals’ rising influence in the country’s halls of power.
Bolsonaro campaign to evangelicals: Brazil’s soul at stake
By David Biller — September 27, 2022
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Self-declared evangelicals make up almost a third of Brazil’s population, more than double two decades ago.
Religion is shaping Brazil’s presidential election – but its evangelicals aren’t the same as America’s
By Amy Erica Smith — September 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — Trump and Bolsonaro use religion in similar ways, but there are key differences between the two countries’ evangelical communities – and politics.
Former education minister in Brazil is jailed in graft probe
By DÉbora Álvares — June 22, 2022
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The former minister is an evangelical pastor himself.
Brazil’s Catholic bishops raise their voices against mining on Indigenous land
By Eduardo Campos Lima — May 16, 2022
SAO PAULO (RNS) — The damage from mining projects goes beyond deforestation, the bishops say. The effects include death from disease and higher rates of murder and sexual assault.
Bolsonaro’s education minister accused of doing bidding of Brazilian evangelicals
By Eduardo Campos Lima — March 25, 2022
(RNS) — While the evangelical bloc in the legislature is not calling for Ribeiro's dismissal, the scandal may cost Bolsonaro and his allies in fall elections.
Brazil’s senate OKs evangelical Bolsonaro ally to top court
By Mauricio Savarese — December 2, 2021
Mendonça had been waiting for approval since July 13, but disagreements between Bolsonaro's administration and a key senator stalled the proceedings for months.
André Mendonça, President Bolsonaro’s ‘terribly evangelical’ Supreme Court justice
By Eduardo Campos Lima — July 22, 2021
SÃO PAULO (RNS) — Mendonça’s nomination has been seen by many as a political maneuver by Bolsonaro to strengthen his ties with evangelicals, a significant and loyal voting bloc for him.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro picks evangelical for supreme court seat
By Mauricio Savarese — July 14, 2021
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday named Attorney General Andre Mendonca, an evangelical pastor, to Brazil's supreme court.
Brazil’s evangelicals, bound to Bolsonaro, fight to follow his lead on pandemic
By Raphael Tsavkko Garcia — May 18, 2021
(RNS) — As the pandemic grew more dire through the spring, pastors have had a powerful influence on health policy.
Missionaries gain access to Amazon’s Indigenous peoples, despite pandemic
By Eduardo Campos Lima — August 13, 2020
SAO PAULO (RNS) — Indigenous rights groups now worry that the new law will prompt missionaries to enter their reservations, and spread coronavirus.
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