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...Guatemala but also across traditionally Catholic Latin America. Evangelical Protestantism now claims as much as 30% of the Guatemalan population. Throughout the region, Evangelicals, as Protestants of all types are called, have increased from 15 million to at least 40 million since the late 1960s. Catholicism, says the Rev. Paulo Romeiro, Protestant director of an interdenominational research institute in Sao Paulo, is facing "a serious crisis. As the Evangelical movement grows stronger by the day, the Catholic Church is getting weaker and weaker...
...within close-knit local churches, amid the dispiriting realities of everyday life. Speaking for millions of fellow believers, Nilza Costa, a Pentecostal chambermaid in Rio de Janeiro, says, "I am happiest when I am in church, praying, singing, surrounded by the love of Jesus." Says Ricardo Araujo, a Sao Paulo construction worker who has joined the Baptists, "Without Jesus, I was nobody, but I have found myself through...
...began preaching in 1977 to a dozen curiosity seekers in a rented room above a funeral parlor; today his flock is 2 million strong. The movement filled a 150,000-seat Rio stadium twice last year, opens one new church a week, and has added a $45 million Sao Paulo TV channel to its 14 radio stations...
...rate, after being cut from 80% a month to less than 10%, is back to 17%. Interest rates are sky-high; unemployment is rising. Last week Collor got more bad news. In runoff elections for 15 governorships, progovernment candidates lost in the biggest and most influential states, including Sao Paulo...
...Business, alienated much of the middle class, and invited the risk of a major recession. He has also provoked the wrath of Big Labor, as evidenced last week by strikes at a state-run steel plant outside Rio de Janeiro and at the main Ford auto factory near Sao Paulo. Now Collor must scramble to reaffirm his popular mandate, while at the same time staving off public demands to push his rigorous program off track. Can he do it? Warns Brazilian political scientist Walter de Goes: "The speciality of this economic team is detonating bombs, not picking up the pieces...