2011年10月8日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Brazil

Brazil's Roman Catholics shrink as secular rise (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 01:18 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 5, 2011, monks attend a Mass at the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At the start of the last decade, millions of Brazilian Catholics joined flashy Pentecostal congregations expanding in the world's biggest Catholic country. Now, a new study by Brazil's top research institute finds the country's Catholics are still leaving the church and at a higher rate than ever, but many younger parishioners are simply becoming nonreligious. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - Bruno Maragato went through the Roman Catholic Church's rites like so many others before him in this most Catholic of nations: baptism, first communion, confirmation.

Boy shoots teacher, then kills himself in Brazil (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:29 PM PDT

AP - Brazilian authorities say a 10-year-old student shot and wounded his teacher with a pistol, then killed himself with two bullets into his head.

Chavez challenger wants Brazil-style changes (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:27 AM PDT

Venezuelan opposition governor from the state of Miranda Henrique Capriles Radonski talks to the media during a news conference in Caracas July 6, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia RawlinsReuters - Whizzing into a Caracas slum on his motorbike, Venezuela's young opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski jumps off to slap backs, toss a basketball and pore over scribbled petitions handed to him by locals.

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