Former Brazilian Socialist President Lula Visits World Council of Churches in Geneva
By
Julio
Severo
In
visit to the World Council of Churches (WCC), former Brazilian Socialist President
Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was received by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr.
Olav Fykse Tveit and Rev. Dr Martin Junge, general secretary of the Lutheran
World Federation. Tveit welcomed Lula at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva,
Switzerland on 6 March 2020.
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| Lula and Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches |
Lula
has been closely linked to the ecumenical groups in Brazil. Addressing the World Council of Churches’ 9th
Assembly in 2006 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, he
expressed special gratitude for the WCC’s welcome of Paulo Freire, a Brazilian “educator”
known by a socialist educational method. What few people know is that Freire plagiarized
the Bible-based method of the U.S. Protestant missionary Frank Charles Laubach
(1884–1970).
Being
considered a political “refugee” by WCC after his exile from the military rule
in Brazil, Freire joined the WCC staff in Geneva as a consultant.
Geneva
is the city of John Calvin, the founder of Calvinism. It is virtually the spiritual
capital of Calvinism. It is also one of the capitals of traditional
Protestantism. Today, it is a capital of ecumenical and socialist
Protestantism.
Lula
knows that he cannot defeat charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, who because
of their fierce opposition to abortion and homosexuality have supported Brazilian right-wing
President Jair Bolsonaro. Charismatics and Pentecostals are
the majority of Protestants in Brazil.
Lula
has a history of support of sodomy.
Under his administration, Brazil was the first nation in the world to introduce
in the United Nations a resolution treating homosexuality as an unalienable
human right in 2004, while I campaigned against such resolution.
So no real Christian could ever support him, even though Christians are free to
pray for him and preach the Gospel to him.
Even
though the main Christian support for Lula comes from Catholicism, Protestant
support for Lula comes especially from mainline Protestant churches, which are a
minority in Brazil. These churches are mostly ecumenical and socialist.
The
Brazilian picture where most mainline Protestant churches support Lula and most
charismatic and Pentecostal churches support right-wing Bolsonaro is explained
by a new survey from LifeWay Research, which showed that Pentecostal
Christians are much more conservative than traditional Protestant Christians.
Walter
Altmann, a WCC official, has complained
about my effort to expose his socialist activism.
He, a traditional Protestant theologian. Me, a charismatic evangelical! So the results
of the survey of LifeWay Research are absolutely right.
The
Brazilian ecumenical denominations affiliated to WCC are:
*
Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil
*
Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
*
Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil
*
Methodist Church in Brazil
*
United Presbyterian Church of Brazil
CONIC
is also affiliated to WCC.
Only
WCC and Pope Francis, whom Lula met in his international trip, can politically “save”
Lula, because charismatic Christians will keep praying for him — and exposing
his wicked deeds, and the wicked deeds of his supporters, including WCC.
Portuguese version of this article: Ex-presidente
socialista Lula visita Conselho Mundial de Igrejas em Genebra
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