Brazil is the world's largest Catholic country. But evangelical Christian churches are popping up everywhere, even in the jungle, and now about one-third of Brazil's population is evangelical.

SAO PAULO (AP) – The Sao Paulo State appeal’s court has ordered one of Brazil’s biggest evangelical churches to pay compensation to a follower who says he suffered physical abuse while having an ...

In this May 25, 2020, file photo, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic, stands among supporters as he leaves his official residence of Alvorada palace ...

An example panels of azulejos, traditional Portuguese glazed tiles, in the Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Salvador, Brazil. (Credit: Salvador city government.) Listen SÃO PAULO – ...

Evangelical leaders explain why heeding public health experts on COVID-19 doesn’t violate their faith but instead demonstrates it. Brazil’s churches have landed on the front lines of a disagreement ...

A survey released in January showed that the percentage of Catholics in Brazil continues to decline, while the proportion of evangelicals has increased at a higher annual rate in the past few years.

Last fall, I spent a month in northern Brazil. Although I was there as a rabbi, officiating at services for the Jewish High Holy Days, headlines about the Catholic Church were what grabbed my ...

“I’d rather stand in the soup kitchen line than stop paying the rent and become a street person,” said one woman, explaining why she began to visit the tent-kitchens sponsored by the Franciscan ...

In the country’s most secular state, tiny congregations have made a big impact by their disaster response. For weeks, Tárik Rodriguez had been working on bringing a guest preacher and worship leader ...

BRASILIA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva assured Brazil's Evangelical Christians that he would not restrict religious freedoms if he is elected on Oct. 2, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One of Word of Faith Fellowship's two churches in Brazil has rejected claims made by former members that they were subjected to physical and verbal abuse at the hands of ...

A second wave of COVID-19 infections has swept Brazil over the past few months, taking the average number of daily deaths to more than 2,500 and causing the collapse of the health care system in ...