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Even a priest in Brazil is not spared rage of Bolsonaro supporters
Far-right congregants fumed at clergyman after he criticised president over Covid in his service
Tom Phillips in Fortaleza
Thu 5 Aug 2021 05.10 EDT
The toxic politics bedevilling Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil swept into Father Lino Allegri’s sacristy one Sunday in July, just after the octogenarian priest delivered a homily lamenting the president’s role in the Covid catastrophe that has killed more than half a million Brazilians.
As Allegri removed his white cassock, eight enraged congregants stormed into the rectangular backroom, past a portrait of Mother Teresa bearing the words: “The most dangerous person: the lie. The worst feeling: hate.”
“Go back to Italy! We don’t want you here!” witnesses remember one of the Bolsonaro-supporting intruders ranting at the Verona-born priest, a naturalised Brazilian citizen who has lived in the South American country for more than 50 years.
“Our president is a Christian! A good man! An honest man!” fumed another, jabbing a finger into the 82-year-old clergyman’s face.
Allegri said he had never suffered such an aggressive post-service diatribe.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/05/even-a-priest-in-brazil-is-not-spared-rage-of-bolsonaro-supporters
Also posted in LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142780509