Religion

Exploited cult followers who don't see themselves as victims make authorities' work harder.

The Dark Side of Religion: Cults in Brazil Are Exploiting and Enslaving the Faithful

After four years of silence, Ronaldo Soares received a startling text message from his ...

Aerial picture of uncontacted Amazonian tribe - FUNAI

Brazil Accuses American Missionary of Exposing Indians to Death

An American missionary operating in Brazil has exposed an isolated indigenous tribe to disease ...

Brazilian evangelicals pray in church

Even Being a Minority, Evangelicals Might Decide Who Is Brazil’s Next President

The influence of the Catholic Church has waned in Brazil, where people have been ...

Religion Intolerance Leads to Another African Religion Place Being Burned in Brazil

Another Candomble religious ground has been plundered and burned, this time in the town ...

Congress of young evangelicals - RBC

Brazilian Gangs Are Now Waging Their War in the Name of God

The expression “evangelical drug trafficker” may sound incongruous, but in Rio de Janeiro, it’s ...

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, who died in 1999, was an advocate for Liberation Theology. He was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife

What the World Can Learn from a Moribund Liberation Theology

This June saw the passing of two of our generation’s most fascinating and controversial ...

From "Abortion Movie" by Lincoln Péricles, 2016

The Case to Legalize Abortion in Brazil While Congress Tries to Ban It

I met “Mariana,” a 20-year-old Brazilian woman, in Paraíba state, almost a year ago ...

Expo should have extended till October 8, 2017 - Photo: Fredy Vieira/Publicity

The Moral Crusade of the Right Is Now Investing Against the Arts in Brazil

An art show has become Brazil’s latest political battleground. For those who didn’t get ...