In Brazil, Christian leaders say school attacks connected to “culture of violence”
São Paulo, Brazil A growing number of school attacks in Brazil are connected to the promotion of “a culture of violence” in the country over the past few years, according to Christian leaders in the country. Brazil has seen a surge in attacks on schools in recent years including a 27th March incident in the […]
Indigenous groups protest Brazil bill limiting recognition of tribal lands
Brasilia/São Paulo, BrazilReuters Indigenous groups in Brazil on Tuesday blocked a highway and burned tires to protest a proposed law that would limit their ability to win protected status for ancestral lands. Outside São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, demonstrators blocked a major motorway with flaming tires and used bows and arrows to confront police, who […]
Brazil’s Lula recognises Indigenous territories halted by Bolsonaro
Brasilia, BrazilReuters President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva legally recognised six Indigenous territories on Friday, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro said Brazil’s original people had too much land. The recognition is crucial to protect Indigenous lands from increasing encroachment by farming and invasions by gold miners […]
Brazil launches first anti-deforestation raids under Lula bid to protect Amazon
Uruara, Brazil Reuters Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes on Thursday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation raids under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to end surging destruction inherited from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Reuters exclusively accompanied raids led by environmental agency Ibama in the rainforest […]
Brazil police raid governor’s house over capital riots
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazil’s federal police on Friday raided the house of the suspended Governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, who is under investigation for failing to prevent the storming of government buildings by supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro. Rocha was removed from office for 90 days by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes […]
Brazil riots: Christians represented a significant faction of those who took part
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports that at least four evangelical pastors were among those arrested in the aftermath of the attack…
Brazil’s Lula removes soldiers from guarding presidential residence
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has removed 40 troops guarding the presidential residence after expressing distrust in the military for failing to act against demonstrators that ransacked government buildings on 8th January. His decision was published on Tuesday in the government’s official gazette. Army officers stand guard outside the Planalto […]
Brazil’s prosecutors ask top court to investigate Bolsonaro role in Brasilia riots
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazilian federal prosecutors on Friday asked the Supreme Court to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly encouraging anti-democratic protests that ended in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia. Bolsonaro will be investigated for possible “instigation and intellectual authorship of the anti-democratic acts that resulted in vandalism and violence […]
Lula to purge Bolsonaro loyalists from Brazilian security forces after rampage
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were complicit in letting an anti-government mob ransack the seat of power in Brasilia, and promised to weed out hardcore supporters of his predecessor. The task of screening out those actors will be complex, his senior aides said, […]
Essay: What now for Brazil? President Lula strengthened, but Bolsonaro supporters won’t go quietly
In an article first published on The Conversation, DEBORAH BARROS LEAL FARIAS, of UNSW Sydney, looks, in the wake of Sunday’s riots in Brasilia, at what next for the South American nation…