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by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2022 | Brazil, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, Church in the Americas, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |
An appearance by Cardinal Orani Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro at a ceremony with President Jair Bolsonaro last week as the country enters the campaign for the 2022 presidential election has caused controversy in Brazil.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | ash wednesday, Associated Press, Brazil, carnival, Church in the Americas, COVID restrictions, Lent, News, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |
Dozens of dogs and their owners in Rio de Janeiro challenged a city ban on street parties and gathered for their annual Carnival parade Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Black Catholics, Brazil, Church in the Americas, immigrants and refugees, lead, News, Racial justice, Racism, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |
The brutal beating to death of a Congolese refugee at a beach kiosk in Rio de Janeiro has spurred outrage in Brazil.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 25, 2021 | Brazil, Christ the Redeemer, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Rio de Janeiro, Statues | 0 |
On the eve of its 90th anniversary, Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue has been at the center of numerous conflicts between the Church and the government agency that manages the surrounding natural reserve.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 14, 2021 | Associated Press, Brazil, carnival, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Lent, News, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |
Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival festivities may have been canceled, but nobody told the dogs.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 14, 2021 | Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Rio de Janeiro, Scotland | 0 |
In one day, the Catholic Church on two continents lost two leaders to COVID-19. Both men were outspoken defenders of the church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 13, 2021 | News, News Briefs, Rio de Janeiro, Vatican | 0 |
Rome Newsroom, Jan 13, 2021 / 01:47 pm (CNA).- Brazilian Cardinal Eusébio Oscar Scheid, the archbishop emeritus of Rio de Janeiro and a theologian, died Wednesday afternoon after a long period of illness.
The 88-year-old cardinal was living in …..
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2020 | Brazil, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Environment Ecology, Laudato Si, News, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |
The Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro has launched a partnership with a Canadian company to reduce plastic disposal into the oceans.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2020 | Associated Press, Brazil, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, News, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |
Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, which appears to balance improbably atop Corcovado mountain, has withstood the worst of what the elements could muster for nearly nine decades. Now it, too, is succumbing to the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 24, 2020 | Associated Press, Brazil, carnival, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, News, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |
As Portuguese Catholic colonists brought African slaves to Brazil, the enslaved men and women developed syncretic blends of their traditional religions with Catholicism, now practiced by about a tiny minority of Brazilians.
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