Evangelical Christians in Brazil resolve to 'bring Jesus' to carnival revelers

[Judi Lynn]

The group played a key role in the election of the country’s far-right president and have become increasingly assertive

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Wed 26 Feb 2020 04.00 EST

With drummers pounding out samba rhythms through the rain, this might almost have been just another one of the hundreds of street parties of Rio’s world-famous carnival.

But nobody at the I’m Full of Love Samba Street Party on Copacabana Beach was drunk or in costume, few bystanders were dancing – and the group on the sound truck was singing about Jesus.

Evangelical Christians, a large and increasingly assertive demographic in Brazil, played a key role in the election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, whose wife Michelle is the most famous congregation member at Rio’s Attitude Baptist Church, the organizers of the party.

And, where once they would leave town during carnival, they are increasingly visible during the annual celebrations, said Attitude’s pastor Josué Valandro Jr.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/evangelical-christians-in-brazil-resolve-to-bring-jesus-to-carnival-revelers



president Jair Bolsonaro, wife, Michelle

[lapfog_1]

1. it seems that the whole world is going nuts

this asshole in Brazil, UK with Boris, China, the Philippines, Turkey, Russia, many small European countries, the US, Modi in India?

It seems that most of the world is now run by fascist or fascist leaning near dictators.

How did the world become so fearful of "the other"?

[Kaiserguy]

2. The ones going the nuttiest

seem to be RW Christians. Who are anything but Christians