By Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
The group played a key role in the election of the country’s far-right president and have become increasingly assertive
With drummers pounding out samba rhythms through the rain, this might almost have been just another one of the hundreds of street parties of Rio’s world-famous carnival.
But nobody at the I’m Full of Love Samba Street Party on Copacabana Beach was drunk or in costume, few bystanders were dancing – and the group on the sound truck was singing about Jesus.
Source: Evangelical Christians in Brazil resolve to ‘bring Jesus’ to carnival revelers
Category: Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, Americas, Rio de Janeiro, Evangelical Christianity, Religion
