Word: maracanazinho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 25,000 packing Rio's Maracanazinho Stadium included favela dwellers and members of Brazil's lower middle class, their swarthy faces reflecting their country's racial mix. Decorously dressed in black suits and flowered dresses, they were moved by evangelical zeal: when a 2,000-voice choir began to sing, everyone joined in. Afterward, a trickle of shouted individual prayers grew into a waterfall roar. Last week's rally, at the Eighth Pentecostal World Conference, eloquently illustrated the power and missionary success of one of the century's fastest-growing religious movements...
Statistics & Resolutions. In Rio's crush, one Brazilian delegate was killed in a streetcar accident, eight underwent emergency operations, 260 applied for first-aid treatment, and nine lost their Bibles. In the city's Maracanazinho indoor stadium (25,000 capacity), delegates and spectators met for 14 plenary sessions, plus dozens of sectional meetings, during which the congress...
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