Tag: Catholic Church

‘No hypocrisy - unsafe abortion kills the poor every day’ and ‘For women’s lives’. Signs held in support of legal abortion during a march in São Paulo | MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP via Getty Images

Abortion: Pro-choice Forces in Brazil Are Being Threatened by Christian Radicals and the Ultra-right

Brazil’s Supreme Court has postponed a debate on decriminalizing early-term abortion, leading feminists and ...

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Andrea Dip
Brazilian evangelicals pray in church

Even Being a Minority, Evangelicals Might Decide Who Is Brazil’s Next President

The influence of the Catholic Church has waned in Brazil, where people have been ...

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Thomas Milz

Inspired by Pope Francis, Brazilian Bishops Call on Catholics to Protect the Environment

With the theme “Fraternity – Brazilian Biomes and the Defense of Life,” the National ...

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Andreia Verdélio

Catholic Church Gets Credit for Wider User of Condom in Brazil

Recent research has revealed a greater willingness on the part of the Brazilian population ...

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Cristina Índio do Brasil

From Slaveholders to Revolution Mongers Brazil’s Clergy Has Never Been Too Catholic

A friend of mine who lives in Australia once asked me how it can ...

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Augusto Zimmermann

How Christ Met Marx in Brazil

Although Brazil has a great number of religious denominations, about seventy-five percent of its ...

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Augusto Zimmermann