Pastor Dione and the "Restoration Ministry"

Church-goers participate in an Assembly of God church service in a slum of Rio de Janeiro.With most state functions absent in Rio's far of neighborhoods, the church pastor and the "ministers" find it easy to make converts of drug trafficker and others with their agressive recruitment campaign. (Australfoto/Douglas Engle)

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Church-goers participate in an Assembly of God church service in a slum of Rio de Janeiro.With most state functions absent in Rio's far of neighborhoods, the church pastor and the "ministers" find it easy to make converts of drug trafficker and others with their agressive recruitment campaign. (Australfoto/Douglas Engle)

Rio Brazil evangelical church religion