Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin, because saying it in Italian is a common local curse. In Tuscany, clerics find it embarrassing to end the Mass with Andate in pace (Go in peace)-locally the most common way to shoo away a beggar. Trying to come up with a common Mass text for Brazil and Portugal, translators discovered that they could not use the most common Brazilian word for servant (servidor): in Portugal it means bedpan...
...Jaegar, Secretary of Edu- ention and Cultural Affairs, State Government, Rio Grande do Sul, explained the two-way approach of autonomy and centralization towards education in Brazil. The Federal government aids lower education which remains a local responsibility, decentralized in content as well as administration. While universities have full autonomy, they are financed by the state...
Last week Castello Branco took a hopeful step toward detribalizing Brazil's politics by signing into law a new electoral code and a tough party reform. The new code is intended to put Brazil's election procedures into coherent form for the first time, banning coalition candidates in mayoral as well as state and federal deputy races so as to reduce confusion. The other reform measure is designed to cut the number of parties down to manageable size and ensure that they have meaningful grass-roots representation...
Last week in Rio de Janeiro, at the general conference of the Methodist Church of Brazil, and in Lima, at the Fourth Latin American Lutheran Conference, two major Protestant groups met to ponder their rapid growth rate (nearly 10% a year) and its portents for the future. As even Roman Catholic churchmen admit, the potential of Protestant expansion is unlimited. There is a strong tendency among the masses of the poor, the educated middle class, and the young to look upon Roman Catholicism as an elderly and often irrelevant institution. Still spiritually hungry, however, many find satisfaction in a simple...
...Chile and Brazil, the Protestants include a surprisingly high proportion of educators, businessmen and government officials. Most often, however, Protestants find their converts among urban workers who may have been baptized as Catholics but never have practiced their faith. Last year, for example, Methodist Pastor Gessé Texeira de Carvalho started a mission in Petropolis, a mountaintop city 27 miles from Rio. He now has 45 converts and 90 people taking instruction. "Baroque statues and gilded altars were all right for their grandfathers," says De Carvalho, "but the Brazilian of today must find a better way to reaffirm his faith...