Evangelicals flex muscle in Brazilian election race
By AFP
Published September 7, 2022
Churchgoers attend a ceremony at the Assembly of God evangelical church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Copyright Royal Canadian Mounted Police Saskatchewan/AFP/File Handout
Anna PELEGRI
Giociani Lucio, an evangelical Christian, stands on a street corner in Rio de Janeiro waving a flag with images of two would-be lawmakers who support President Jair Bolsonaro, flanking a well-known pastor.
“Only Jesus can save Brazil from corruption and from Lula,” Lucio says of the leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the frontrunner in presidential elections next month.
Bolsonaro has grown close to Brazil’s evangelical churches over the course of his four-year term.
With the slogan “Brazil above and God above everyone”, Bolsonaro has been a fierce defender of conservative positions such as banning abortion and he also named an evangelical to the Supreme Court for the first time.
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