tailfins
07-04-2015, 08:10 PM
Could it be that one day Brazil will replace the USA as the world's predominant Christian nation?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/11718235/Brazilian-Evangelicals-set-up-a-sin-free-version-of-Facebook.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/11718235/Brazilian-Evangelicals-set-up-a-sin-free-version-of-Facebook.html)
Fluffy clouds waft across a blue sky as you log in and while you chat with friends, Gospel music rings out: welcome to Facegloria (http://facegloria.com/index.php?r=user/auth/login), the social network for Brazilian (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/) Evangelicals.
http://facegloria.com/index.php?r=user/auth/login
It all started three years ago when Mr Barros and three other devout Christian colleagues working at the mayor's office in Ferraz de Vasconcelos, near Brazil's financial capital Sao Paulo, decided there was a market for a squeaky-clean version of Facebook.
Given that 42 million of Brazil's 202 million people are estimated to be Evangelicals – and the fervent Protestant movement continues to make inroads into traditionally dominant Catholicism (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/10206149/Pope-shows-rock-star-appeal-with-million-man-audience-on-Copacabana-beach.html) – they might be right.
However Evangelicals, who numbered just six per cent of the population in 1980, are now 22 per cent, while the Catholic total has dropped from 90 per cent to 63 per cent.
At that rate, Evangelicals will become the majority by 2040 and Facegloria hopes to be riding the wave.
"The Pentecostal message which is preached in the outskirts of cities and the favelas puts a lot of emphasis on the individual as being responsible for his behaviour if he wants help from God too.
"This kind of faith works well in cities."
"In two years we hope to get to 10 million users in Brazil. In a month we have had 100,000 and in two we are expecting a big increase thanks to a mobile phone app," he said.
Acir dos Santos, the mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, says there's no limit.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/11718235/Brazilian-Evangelicals-set-up-a-sin-free-version-of-Facebook.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/11718235/Brazilian-Evangelicals-set-up-a-sin-free-version-of-Facebook.html)
Fluffy clouds waft across a blue sky as you log in and while you chat with friends, Gospel music rings out: welcome to Facegloria (http://facegloria.com/index.php?r=user/auth/login), the social network for Brazilian (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/) Evangelicals.
http://facegloria.com/index.php?r=user/auth/login
It all started three years ago when Mr Barros and three other devout Christian colleagues working at the mayor's office in Ferraz de Vasconcelos, near Brazil's financial capital Sao Paulo, decided there was a market for a squeaky-clean version of Facebook.
Given that 42 million of Brazil's 202 million people are estimated to be Evangelicals – and the fervent Protestant movement continues to make inroads into traditionally dominant Catholicism (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/10206149/Pope-shows-rock-star-appeal-with-million-man-audience-on-Copacabana-beach.html) – they might be right.
However Evangelicals, who numbered just six per cent of the population in 1980, are now 22 per cent, while the Catholic total has dropped from 90 per cent to 63 per cent.
At that rate, Evangelicals will become the majority by 2040 and Facegloria hopes to be riding the wave.
"The Pentecostal message which is preached in the outskirts of cities and the favelas puts a lot of emphasis on the individual as being responsible for his behaviour if he wants help from God too.
"This kind of faith works well in cities."
"In two years we hope to get to 10 million users in Brazil. In a month we have had 100,000 and in two we are expecting a big increase thanks to a mobile phone app," he said.
Acir dos Santos, the mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, says there's no limit.