Battle for religious vote turns Brazil election into holy war
Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 2:10 AM by © AFP 2022
President Jair Bolsonaro has cultivated close ties with Brazil's powerful Evangelical community.
Photo: Caio GUATELLI / AFP Source: AFP
Whether piously bowing in prayer, wooing Evangelical pastors or fending off memes linking them to Satanism, Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have turned Brazil's polarizing presidential race into a holy war.
Religion plays an increasingly big role in politics in Brazil, where 59 percent of people say it is an important factor in how they vote, according to polling firm Datafolha.
The South American giant of 215 million people is the world's largest Catholic country -- more than half its population -- and also has a booming, politically powerful Evangelical community, estimated at nearly one-third the electorate.
Bolsonaro, a conservative Catholic, has cultivated close ties with Evangelicals and made religion a central part of his reelection campaign, running on the slogan of "God, country, family and freedom."
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