✝️ A Christian struggle

For more than a decade, the Brazilian left has faced a stubborn obstacle in the evangelical pulpit. In the 2022 elections, two-thirds of evangelical Christian voters backed Jair Bolsonaro's far-right candidacy — leaving Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's margin of victory razor-thin. 

Closing that evangelical gap became an official goal for Lula’s Workers' Party (PT): in recent years, it created a Religious Studies Center within its academic foundation and even offered a course on the subject to its members.

But these efforts haven’t worked, and opinion polls show the evangelical gap remains as wide as ever…

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