{"id":39183,"date":"2013-07-23T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_brazils_evangelicals_a_growing_force_in_prayer_politics\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:57:45","slug":"npr_brazils_evangelicals_a_growing_force_in_prayer_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39183","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Brazil&#39;s Evangelicals A Growing Force In Prayer, Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity in Brazil is big business \u201d\u201d not only are major superstar pastors represented at the convention, but businesses like Sony Music have booths as well.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers Lucas and Renault Louren\u00c3\u00a7o have been singing together since they were in their teens, and together they are the Brazilian evangelical version of the boy band. Now in their early 20s \u201d\u201d sporting matching faux hawks and wearing jeans \u201d\u201d they came to reach out to their established fans and sell records to new ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This fair attracts many people, even people who are not evangelicals, which is essential because that way people will know the gospel and so every day there will be even more of us evangelicals,&#8221; Renault says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2013\/07\/22\/204351421\/Ahead-Of-Popes-Visit-Brazils-Evangelicals-Speak\">Read (or listen to) it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity in Brazil is big business \u201d\u201d not only are major superstar pastors represented at the convention, but businesses like Sony Music have booths as well. Brothers Lucas and Renault Louren\u00c3\u00a7o have been singing together since they were in their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39183\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,357,419,154,108,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-brazil","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}