00:00With Brazil's presidential runoff just six days away, a football match organized by musician
00:06Chico Buarque and social movements brought together progressive activists and evangelical
00:11pastors to challenge the idea that faith and the far right go hand in hand.
00:17Let's see.
00:19It's game day, but not just any game.
00:22Brazilian singer and songwriter Chico Buarque has organized a match together with social
00:27movements as a demonstration of support for President Lula's re-election, and the guest
00:32team were evangelical pastors.
00:37Evangelicals cannot be divided in this or that position.
00:41Many evangelicals are progressive, so much so that they come here and will lose to us
00:47in football, and we are happy to defeat them in football and support them in our fight against
00:52fascism.
00:55As many of the cultural events of the previous days, the goal is to communicate through laughter
01:01and joy, even amidst the challenging times.
01:05We realized, our society realized, that it would not be possible to turn this election
01:09only by the negative key of resistance.
01:12This key is also important, denouncing what bolsonarism means, but it is also important
01:16to produce meetings, to produce joy.
01:18As one side and the other counted goals, the game offered an opportunity to show different
01:24representations of Brazilian religious communities, far from simplifications and misconceptions.
01:31An evangelical woman is a woman, she is hard working, she is black, she lives in the outskirts,
01:36she is evangelical.
01:37And all these elements are mixed up in the voting choices.
01:40So what we have seen here is that it is not decisive.
01:43It is not decisive.
01:45As many times the progressive field itself indicates that the pastor goes there and people flock and
01:50vote.
01:50It doesn't work like that.
01:52For these religious leaders, the common idea that portrays all evangelicals as far right
01:57is a preconception that hinders true understanding.
02:01The Bible says to us that we are imitators of Jesus.
02:05In other words, who imitates?
02:07Who imitates the black boy of Nazareth cannot, under no circumstances, agree and corroborate
02:13with violence, with hatred, with division, with exclusion.
02:17They cannot in any way corroborate with genocide, with torture, with dictatorship.
02:24It takes days until President Lula da Silva faces far right Flavio Bolsonaro in the Brazilian
02:29runoff, with religion being among the decisive factors that many are closely looking at.
02:35Francisco Samudio, Belen de los Santos, Ferchela Sur English, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
