The young Federal Deputy Minas Gerais realized that while many politicians vie for the vote of evangelicals, almost no one explores the field. Your account is simple: Although the number of evangelicals grows in the country, Brazil remains the largest Catholic nation in the world. (PL) is moving to snap the Catholic votes, which in 2022 guaranteed the victory of.
For research purposes, I have been with Catholic communities on social networks and messaging groups for years, especially those who identify themselves as conservatives. In these circles, Nikolas is a celebrated figure. Since November last year, in these means is the expectation that he will become Catholicism. Prayer chains were organized for Our Lady to help in their eventual conversion.
Nikolas is and built his political career by presenting himself as such. I doubt he becomes Catholicism, but he may be seen as a politician who also speaks in the name of Catholics. That’s what he is preparing for.
The main gateway Nikolas used to approach Catholics has been Father Paulo Ricardo. At 57, with over three decades of priesthood, he is one of the largest conservative Catholic right leaders and an internet phenomenon, accumulating almost 6 million followers on his networks. In November last year, Nikolas recommended, on his social networks, one of the priest’s books, causing a stir among Catholics.
By 2023, Nikolas had already shared with his followers who was reading the biography of St. Josemaría Escrivá, founder of. More recently, in January 2025, the Dom Bosco Center, a Catholic association that declares itself counterrevolutionary, released in its profile of what had invited Nikolas to a conversation about Catholicism.
The reaction of Catholics to each of these posts and in the groups was synthesized in the comment of two leaders of downtown Dom Bosco: “Nikolas Ferreira is no longer Catholic because someone who preaches to him is missing.” What is between this statement is that, for them, Nikolas is already Catholic, even if he himself does not know it yet.
In addition to the Catholic, even without converting, the Minas Gerais deputy is skillfully building a bridge that few, or none, had tried before: to win the vote of confidence of Catholic networks without losing the evangelical base.
For almost five years, an article entitled “Eclipse Catholicism”, in which he highlighted the importance of Catholicism in the consolidation of Brazilian conservatism. Nikolas, who has proved to be an observer of reality, also realized that. He made gestures toward the Catholics and was received with open arms. Meanwhile, the government continues to face difficulties in its communication with religious.
It was created in a deep connection with sectors of the Catholic Church, but this has already been to history. In recent decades, Catholicism has become and the PT has not followed these changes.
With an eye on 2026, young Nikolas Ferreira promises to work to Lula – as he has just done with the video about the pix – occupying the one who was once a known land of the president.
As much as the scenario is still defining itself, what is clear is that Nikolas is redesigning religious borders in Brazilian politics, sailing skillfully between groups that until then seemed not to mix. This is how he, although he is not even old enough to run for presidency, is already projecting himself, more than any other, as a strong candidate for Brazilian Christians.
