They voted by weight at (PL) and, almost three years after their reelection plan, go to the pike, continue to assign him. But what was the role of this religious bloc on the coup agenda that yielded in the (Supreme Court)?
Small was not, but to answer this question, it is necessary to consider the complex intersections between faith and power. Yes, there was one. But the day itself had no institutional adhesion of any large church, but a diffuse mobilization of faithful and pockets.
The breakdown has gained prophetic voltage to part of the present. Shepherds transmitted prayers in real time, gospel singers sang hymns, and caravans organized by churches landed under the promise of hanging one, and in the Planalto Palace.
Identified her one. Francismar Aparecido da Silva, for example, was arrested at the camp in front of the Army Barracks, the day after the depredation in the federal capital. He presented himself as president of a Church in Minas Gerais, the evangelistic ministry feed, and in December 2022 published on the internet a video of Bolsonaro with the caption: “The message was given to those who want peace. Get ready for war!”
John Marciano de Oliveira has a church, Jesus Christ is the reason for my living, and a photo with the deputy (). As your parliamentary inspiration ,.
Until he was imprisoned, Jorge Luiz dos Santos led a temple that said they played selling sugarcane juice in a community in southern Minas Gerais. Pastor Shalom was what they called him. Sentenced to 16 years and six months in prison, he had a house arrest released this year, due to weakened health.
Gospel singer Salomão Vieira even said that he was the target of arrest warrant “simply” for being in Brasilia on the day with a Bible and a Brazilian flag. He led cults between camped in Sao Paulo who questioned () () against Bolsonaro’s victory.
. Tocantinense won the title of coup muse, with its look of Barbie, a pop icon that has revealed admire on social networks. He was arrested, and then released, on charges of fostering the so -called “, codenamed for the invasion of the Three Powers Square.
Reports collected by the PF reveal that religious fervor has not stopped in rhetoric. Faithful such as Sirlei Siqueira and Jamil Vanderlino, both from Sinop (MT), said they traveled on tours to be touched by local churches.
The background is the one, which had already given the tone of past elections. Magali Cunha, a researcher at the Institute of Religion Studies and author of “Pulpit to Social Media: Evangelicals in Politics and Digital Activism,” says 2016 as a point of turning to what he calls “Messianization of the image of Jair Bolsonaro.”
It was this year that he, then deputy of Baixo Clerian, entered the PSC (Christian Social Party, later incorporated into Somos). Pastor Everaldo, President of the acronym, on the Jordan River – reminds that Bolsonaro never ceased to declare himself Catholic.
I didn’t even need to. He soon became the largest ally that national carat shepherds have ever had in the Planalto, a kind of “pancritist” president, which navigates between and evangelicalism. This rapprochement between Bolsonaro and churches, to Cunha, paved the “radicalized reaction to maintain the same government proposal in 2023”.
It comes in, which gains political-ideological contours when designing forces of good (Christians, and right) against dark enemies (any and any progressive).
The former first lady illustrated her well when, in an act on Paulista Avenue in favor of her husband, in 2024, she pulled the ear of the peers of faith: “For a long time we were negligent, to the point that we do not mix political with religion, and evil has done.
Some pastors preferred a cautious distance from Bolsonaro after the electoral wreck in 2022, and the sequential legal implications for the former president ever since. “Historically,” says Magali Cunha, many churches “are institutionally pragmatic: they give visibility to political support when calculated benefits are guaranteed, and in a crisis they retreat.”
Others persisted endorsing Bolsonaro, with more or less emphasis. It was the nost of these voices. It ended up as the only pastor of national relevance that it implied Bolsonaro for scammer pretensions, at least for now.
