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Under government pressure, Brazilian Congress passes weakened bill against Indian infanticide Bill created to eliminate failure to report infanticide now shuts its eyes to it By Julio Severo Under pressure from the administration of President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, the Brazilian House of Representatives has critically debilitated a bill establishing criminal accountability from health agents and agents of Funai (Brazilian acronym for National Indian Foundation, which supposedly should protect Indians) considered “neglectful” in cases of infanticide in tribes. The custom of burying children alive, or to abandon them to die in forests, persists until today in several Brazilian tribes. Babies...

Director of YWAM in Brazil attacks Christian activism against the anti-“homophobia” bills and homosexual “marriage” Bráulia Ribeiro accuses Christian mobilization against gay agenda as “hate and prejudice crusade” By Julio SeveroThe year is 1932. Evangelical churches, highly moralist, were marked by holiness in their behavior and a major concern for an ethical and impeccable testimony. There was also a real interest in the purity of the Gospel and in sacrifices for its spread to a lost world.To transform such interest into action is more than fair. Since the Gospel offers hope to the sinner, decades before the first anti-“homophobia” bills,...