Spiritual battles continue day and night across the globe, including in the heart of the remote rainforest. The following example was featured in The Washington Post recently.
Rupert Shelley, Director of Mission Partnerships at international mission agency Crosslinks, says it reminds us how ‘the gospel is indeed growing and bearing fruit in extraordinary ways across many parts of South America’.
Sao Miguel stands on the Purus river, a tributary of the Amazon in northern Brazil. Once firmly Roman Catholic, it has been rocked over the last few years by the arrival of evangelical Protestantism. Two individuals encapsulate this struggle: on the one hand stalwart Catholic priest Father Moisés Oliveira; on the other Pastor Leudo Alencar, a charismatic evangelical leader, each vying for the souls of the local inhabitants.
