Religion
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 ...
Brazilian Evangelicals, Swinging Hard to the Right, Could Put a Trump-like Populist in the Presidency
Even as the overall population of Christians in the United States declines, evangelicals have ...
Brazil Congress Might Ban All Abortions Even When Mother’s Life Is in Danger
More pregnant women could die in Brazil if it passes a law banning all ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
World’s Religious Leaders Get Together in Norway to Rescue the Rainforest
Religious leaders from around the world are meeting for the first time with conservationists ...
An Evangelical Mayor Threatens to End Rio’s Carnaval
Rio de Janeiro without Carnaval? Unimaginable! But Rio’s city hall and its revelers are ...
