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Bolsonaro relies on Brazil’s evangelical Christians to keep the faith

Far-right president tries to reinvigorate support for his re-election campaign but believers are now more divided

Dressed in yellow and green and waving national flags of the same colours, thousands of Brazilian Christians listened to their president Jair Bolsonaro cast his re-election bid in biblical tones.

“It is a fight between good and evil,” Bolsonaro said last month at a “March for Jesus” event in Vitória, the capital of coastal state Espírito Santo. “I believe in God and I believe in you. And this victory will be ours.”

Behind in opinion polls to his leftist rival, ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the far-right populist is on a mission to whip up enthusiasm among a group that was key to his rise: Brazil’s growing community of evangelical Christians, now estimated to make up almost one-third of the country’s 215mn population.

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