Christian pastors and their followers attend a rally with Brazil’s minister for social development under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Belford Roxo.
Photographer: Maria Magdalena Arrellaga/BloombergAmericas
How Brazil’s Lula Is Trying to Win Over Evangelicals Who Rejected Him
The country’s fastest-growing religious group holds the keys to Brazil’s political future. Its president is fighting to regain their support.
On a sweltering day in March in a scruffy Rio de Janeiro suburb, a group of hundreds of Christian pastors and their followers listened intently as Brazil’s top social policy official pleaded for help.
“We need you,” Wellington Dias, Brazil’s minister for social development under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, told the crowd.