Priest accused of being involved in alleged plot to assassinate ...
Nov 22, 2024 · A large crowd, presumably supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, seized on Sunday key buildings at the seat of the Brazilian government.
Brazil: Bolsonaro challenges the Catholic Church
Jair Bolsonaro is the first Brazilian president to participate in the March for Jesus that united close to three million evangelicals in Sao Paulo this year. In his speech, he thanked the faithful for their support and said, “You were decisive in changing the destiny of this marvelous homeland Brazil.”
Brazilian bishops: Throw the book against alleged coup plotters
Dec 21, 2024 · Former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro and 35 other people, including a Catholic priest, were charged by the country's Federal Police on Nov. 21, 2024, on suspicion of the crimes of violent...
How Bolsonaro is breaking the divide between the state and church
Sep 2, 2022 · With Bolsonaro, the dividing line between state and church is increasingly disappearing. As Minister for Women, Family, and Human Rights, Bolsonaro appointed a particularly active person: Damares Alves.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro is worried about a new ‘leftist’ insurgency: The ...
Feb 25, 2019 · This fall’s Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazonian Region is already heightening tensions between the Catholic Church in Brazil and the populist, right-wing government of President Jair...
Brazilian Catholic oppose attempts to pardon members of 2022 …
Dec 20, 2024 · The investigators discovered former President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) and his closest collaborators, most of them high-ranking military officers, planned to stage a coup after he lost the ...
Why Brazil's Bolsonaro is courting evangelicals in the world's
Aug 26, 2022 · Jair Bolsonaro is relying on support from the country's quickly growing evangelical community to pull off an upset against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October.
Christian nationalism is thriving in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Dec 1, 2021 · Bolsonaro’s wife is an active member of a Baptist church, and at least one of his sons identifies as evangelical. Bolsonaro himself, however, is Catholic and enjoys the support of conservative sectors of the Brazilian Catholic Church.
Bolsonaro will accept Brazil’s election results only if he wins. The ...
Sep 27, 2022 · Instead of holding the bicentennial events in Brasília, the nation’s capital, President Jair Bolsonaro transformed a patriotic military parade into a campaign rally, summoning more than 100,000...
Why Brazil's Bolsonaro is courting evangelicals in the world's …
Aug 25, 2022 · Jair Bolsonaro is relying on support from the country's quickly growing evangelical community to pull off an upset against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October.