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...piece, a six-inch statue of an icon named Faith, once formed part of the ornate gold-leaf side altars that date from 1690, shortly after work on the church began. "It was priceless," says Dom Paulo Azeredo Coutinho, one of the 45 monks who live and work in the famous building and monastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Stolen Saints | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...Bento church has taken its own precautions, hiring seven security guards to patrol the church and grounds, as well as fitting 15 CCTV cameras in and around the premises. These steps have made the monks who wander about in flowing dark brown robes feel safer, and Coutinho is confident it also offers protection to the priceless pieces that hang from every wall and ceiling of the spectacular 300-year-old building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Stolen Saints | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...Coutinho has a new idea to bolster the deterrent effect of his security measures. Looking up at a little camera discreetly hanging from a whitewashed wall, a mischievous smiles flickers across the face of the serene former architect. "You can't see those cameras," he says. "We should put up a sign saying, 'Smile, You're Being Filmed.' Or even better, 'Smile, God is Watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Stolen Saints | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...five goals and winning only two games in the entire tournament. During the enchanted years of the great Pele, Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself, at 37 too old to play championship soccer, and too recently the best player in the world to resign himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Ultimate Kick | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...fight Angolan liberation groups. Following Lisbon's 1974 revolution, which led to the dismantling of Portugal's African empire, the Katangese were virtually forced to side with Agos-tinho Neto's Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan civil war. Admiral Rosa Coutinho, the left-leaning Portuguese high commissioner of the colony, offered them a subsidy if they would serve under Neto-and threatened to hand them over to Mobutu if they refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: Things Are Looking Bad for Mobutu | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

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