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Yahoo! News: Brazil

Brazil evangelicals seek drug gangs' lost souls (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 07:40 PM CDT

Pastor Ezequiel (L) conducts an exorcism on a woman in a church at the Vigigal slum in Rio de Janeiro July 26, 2008. When Antonio Soares da Silva was still in the womb, a spirit-worshipper looked into his future and saw a drug dealer. His mother saw a man of God. Both turned out to be right. Da Silva snorted his first cocaine at 13, ran packets of the drug at 'funk' parties in Rio de Janeiro slums, and soon was hooked on drugs, women, and the gangster life. Now, at 29, he is Pastor Ezequiel -- a charismatic preacher whose exorcisms and fiery sermons boom through Vidigal, a shantytown perched high above one of Rio's most beautiful beaches.His journey from cocaine to Christ is no longer an unusual one in Rio's slums, where Brazil's growing evangelical Protestant churches are on the front line of the city's drug wars. (Stuart Grudgings/Reuters)Reuters - When Antonio Soares da Silva was still in the womb, a spirit-worshipper looked into his future and saw a drug dealer. His mother saw a man of God. Both turned out to be right.

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