Pastor Silas Malafaia, second from left, prays alongside President Jair Bolsonaro, far left, at the Assembly of God Victory in Christ Church in Rio de Janeiro. AP Photo/Bruna Prado With one week to go ...

The custom of wearing white emerged from Afro-Brazilian religious rituals that were once criminalized and later absorbed into ...

Amy Erica Smith currently receives funding from an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, as well as a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship at Iowa State University. Research reported in this article ...

(THE CONVERSATION) With one week to go before Brazil’s presidential election, the two front-runners are battling for the religious vote. Last month, first lady Michelle Bolsonaro told an evangelical ...

SÃO PAULO (RNS) — After police indicted 37 individuals, including a Catholic priest, evangelical Christian supporters of the right-wing former president called the investigation an effort by the ...

(The Conversation) — Trump and Bolsonaro use religion in similar ways, but there are key differences between the two countries’ evangelical communities – and politics. (The Conversation) — With one ...

Mag Oliveira embraces her daughter Najla as they pray in an area of the Abaete dune system, on a steep rise of sand evangelicals have come to call the "Holy Mountain", in Salvador, Brazil, late Friday ...

How Protestantism has failed—and how it is succeeding—in Roman Catholic Brazil was told last week by a man who has investigated. Having spent three months last year in Brazil for the International ...

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An unlikely combination of Green Religion and money was expected to share center stage in the battle against rising temperatures as COP 30 got underway Nov. 10 in Belem, Brazil, with the Association ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As my eyes adjust to the half-light, I discern through a veil of incense a line-up of objects fixed to the temple wall: axe heads, a ...

For the first time ever, a U.S. Protestant missionary was given Brazil’s Order of the Southern Cross in Rio de Janeiro this week. Recipient : the Rev. Dr. Hugh Clarence Tucker, 86. The Brazilian ...