Brazil’s Churches Must Now Pay a Social Security Tax. Should This Count as Persecution? Compiled by Marisa Lopes Six Christian leaders and professionals respond to the government’s new directive.

Petra Costa's sobering new Netflix documentary depicts the hold evangelical Christianity has over far-right politics in Brazil.

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 ...

Soares has 700 churches and claims a half-million followers in three countries. His Sunday services in Brazil's largest city, São Paulo, usually draw more than 10,000 people.

The church has to be there," said Fr. Luiz Antônio Pereira Lopes, who directs the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro's Slums Pastoral Ministry, the oldest ministry of its kind, with 46 years of existence.

The most important statue in the church, the one of Our Lady of Remedies, was probably produced in Mexico at least 70 years ago, said Baggio. “It was given to the church by the Army,” he said.

Three Brazilian teenagers diagnosed with autism were recently baptized in ceremonies specially tailored to their needs ...

I was doing a hospital visit as a newly ordained Presbyterian minister in Brazil. It was late at night when I encountered Sergio at the edge of his terminally ill mother’s bed. (All names of ...

Vaccines are slowly bringing them some hope.” The church’s service ministry to Brazil’s elderly was founded in 2004 by Zilda Arns, a pediatrician and humanitarian.