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.

Brazil’s catholic bishops have approved the creation of a new endowment fund aimed at preserving the church’s cultural ...

(AP) One of Brazil’s most famous priests has inaugurated a massive new Roman Catholic church that will hold about 20,000 worshippers when complete. A mass was celebrated Friday in Sao Paulo to ...

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 – ...

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — The founder of one of Brazil’s biggest evangelical churches siphoned off billions of dollars in donations from his mostly poor followers to buy jewelry, TV stations and other ...

“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 ...