Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
Apartments Wanted. Brasilia started regaining momentum with the revolution that ousted Leftist Goulart 14 months ago and installed Castello Branco in his place. The new President has no love for the raw new city either. As a friend says: "In Rio the President works and rests. In Brasilia he only works." Nevertheless, he seems determined to finish what Kubitschek started. "The consolidation of Brasilia," says Castello Branco, "requires only time and money-mainly money...
View from Rio. To enliven the city's leisure hours, new movies, bowling alleys and a municipal theater are being built; green parks are replacing vacant lots. A fine new hotel rivals anything in Rio, and a 55,000-seat stadium is nearing completion for Brasilia's five professional soccer teams. The biggest push comes from the city folk themselves, who have formed 29 social clubs. "The government built buildings," says Maurice Shashoa, owner of the Terrace Club, "but it didn't make a capital. That's what we're doing...
Brasilia is still years away from the magnificent capital that Kubitschek envisioned. But the population is up to 330,000 with an- estimate of more than 500,000 by 1985. Today 120 of the Congress' 475 members live permanently in Brasilia instead of commuting from Rio and Sao Paulo. Next year the Brazilian Foreign Office will move to the capital, along with the 69 foreign delegations that now have their embassies in Rio. Other members of Brazil's official family should not be far behind. "I'm finding it increasingly difficult," says one U.S. embassy officer...