Tag: Marcelo Crivella
Bishop who thinks homosexuality is ‘evil’ elected as Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
A hardline anti-gay evangelical bishop has been elected as the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
Marcelo Crivella is a bishop of Brazil’s Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, and has also enjoyed success as a right-wing politician.
The bishop took 59.37% of the vote this week as the 2016 Olympic host city elected its new Mayor – a landslide victory over left-wing candidate Marcelo Freixo, who scraped just 40.6% in the run-off.
The Times reports that Crivella has a long record...
