Eduardo Campos Lima, Author at Religion News Service https://religionnews.com Driving essential conversation about how religion and beliefs shape us and our world. Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:07:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Favicon-100x100.png Eduardo Campos Lima, Author at Religion News Service https://religionnews.com 32 32 Brazilians march for Eshu, an Afro-Brazilian deity, to protest Christian intolerance https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/brazilians-march-for-eshu-an-afro-brazilian-deity-to-protest-christian-intolerance/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/brazilians-march-for-eshu-an-afro-brazilian-deity-to-protest-christian-intolerance/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:05:47 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4163796 SÃO PAULO, Brazil (RNS) — A march in honor of the orisha Eshu drew some 150,000 people in São Paulo recently, considered a rebuke to the rise of evangelical Christians’ political power.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/brazilians-march-for-eshu-an-afro-brazilian-deity-to-protest-christian-intolerance/feed/ 0 Brazilian Christian groups oppose bill punishing abortion similarly to homicide https://religionnews.com/2024/06/28/brazilian-christian-groups-oppose-bill-punishing-abortion-similar-to-homicide/ https://religionnews.com/2024/06/28/brazilian-christian-groups-oppose-bill-punishing-abortion-similar-to-homicide/#respond Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:27 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4155210 SÃO PAULO (RNS) — 'Being against abortion, however, cannot be confused with the desire to see the woman who practices it behind bars," said one statement from a group of Catholic priests.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/06/28/brazilian-christian-groups-oppose-bill-punishing-abortion-similar-to-homicide/feed/ 0 Far-right Christians blame Madonna’s ‘satanic’ concert for floods in southern Brazil https://religionnews.com/2024/05/13/right-wing-christians-blame-madonnas-satanic-concert-for-floods-in-southern-brazil/ https://religionnews.com/2024/05/13/right-wing-christians-blame-madonnas-satanic-concert-for-floods-in-southern-brazil/#respond Mon, 13 May 2024 19:25:17 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4147975 SÃO PAULO, Brazil (RNS) — Christian pastors and social media influencers have connected the concert's sexual content with unprecedented floods that have devastated cities in Rio Grande do Sul state and killed 116 people.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/05/13/right-wing-christians-blame-madonnas-satanic-concert-for-floods-in-southern-brazil/feed/ 0 In crime-stricken Haiti, Catholic priests and nuns are targeted as kidnap victims https://religionnews.com/2024/04/01/in-crime-stricken-haiti-catholic-priests-and-nuns-are-targeted-as-kidnap-victims/ https://religionnews.com/2024/04/01/in-crime-stricken-haiti-catholic-priests-and-nuns-are-targeted-as-kidnap-victims/#respond Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:30:56 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4140591 SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Kidnappings by criminal gangs have continued to terrorize the country's residents, not least Catholic priests and other missionaries. In 2024 alone, at least 14 priests and religious brothers and sisters were abducted.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/04/01/in-crime-stricken-haiti-catholic-priests-and-nuns-are-targeted-as-kidnap-victims/feed/ 0 Brazilian evangelical Christians disrupt pre-Lenten partying with ‘Gospel Carnival’ https://religionnews.com/2024/02/19/brazilian-evangelical-christians-disrupt-pre-lenten-partying-with-gospel-carnival/ https://religionnews.com/2024/02/19/brazilian-evangelical-christians-disrupt-pre-lenten-partying-with-gospel-carnival/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:37:09 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4133536 SÃO PAOLO (RNS) — Once content to avoid Carnival's excesses, evangelicals, who make up about 30% of Brazil's population, have a new strategy, working to short-circuit the festival with displays of Christian faith.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/02/19/brazilian-evangelical-christians-disrupt-pre-lenten-partying-with-gospel-carnival/feed/ 0 In South America’s ‘Lithium Triangle,’ Indigenous people defend sacred sites https://religionnews.com/2024/01/18/indigenous-argentinians-defend-sacred-sites-from-lithium-mining/ https://religionnews.com/2024/01/18/indigenous-argentinians-defend-sacred-sites-from-lithium-mining/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:22:49 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4128236 (RNS) — The Indigenous population sees lithium extraction as a disruption of their ancient relationship with the mountains that surround their homes, which they hold as sacred.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/01/18/indigenous-argentinians-defend-sacred-sites-from-lithium-mining/feed/ 0 Argentina’s new president takes spiritual pilgrimage toward radical political change https://religionnews.com/2023/11/29/between-christians-and-judaism-argentinas-president-elect-milei-looks-for-radical-political-change/ https://religionnews.com/2023/11/29/between-christians-and-judaism-argentinas-president-elect-milei-looks-for-radical-political-change/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:54:45 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4121446 (RNS) — The country’s president-elect, who overcame the opposition of the Catholic left, talks of converting to Judaism as he awaits his inauguration. But political observers say the country’s economic crisis will soon make him too busy to dally with religious questions, personal or public.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/11/29/between-christians-and-judaism-argentinas-president-elect-milei-looks-for-radical-political-change/feed/ 0 Muslim missionaries accused of trafficking Amazon Indigenous boys to Turkey https://religionnews.com/2023/08/01/muslim-missionaries-accused-of-trafficking-amazon-indigenous-boys-to-turkey/ https://religionnews.com/2023/08/01/muslim-missionaries-accused-of-trafficking-amazon-indigenous-boys-to-turkey/#respond Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:28:36 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4104521 SÃO PAULO (RNS) — The case has caused outrage. Muslims have criticized the media’s rapt coverage as Islamophobic, given that the alleged operation was not very different from what many Christian churches have been doing for decades.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/08/01/muslim-missionaries-accused-of-trafficking-amazon-indigenous-boys-to-turkey/feed/ 0 Christians represented significant faction of capital rioters in Brazil https://religionnews.com/2023/01/17/christians-represented-significant-faction-of-capital-rioters-in-brazil/ https://religionnews.com/2023/01/17/christians-represented-significant-faction-of-capital-rioters-in-brazil/#respond Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:28:16 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4077269 SÃO PAULO (RNS) — At least four evangelical pastors were among those arrested in the aftermath of the attack.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/01/17/christians-represented-significant-faction-of-capital-rioters-in-brazil/feed/ 0 As their World Cup team advances, Argentines call on folk saints for help https://religionnews.com/2022/12/09/as-their-world-cup-team-faces-the-dutch-argentines-call-on-folk-saints-for-help/ https://religionnews.com/2022/12/09/as-their-world-cup-team-faces-the-dutch-argentines-call-on-folk-saints-for-help/#respond Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:33:42 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4006177 SÃO PAULO, Brazil (RNS) — One expert said that while official Catholic saints tend to be invoked in church, ‘folk saints tend to be more visible in public spaces, including soccer fields.’

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