In 1995, the building was taken over by its current owners, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a controversial Brazilian Pentecostal church.

The hierarchy of the Brazilian church was a stronghold of such thinking.

Among the main touristic attractions are the beaches, the buggy trips on the sand dunes and the small, typical Brazilian church.

The attack on the Brazilian church is unjustified.

There are some 30 Brazilian evangelical churches in London.

Please pray for the Brazilian church that it may mature and become a blessing to the nation and to the world.

In an absurd coincidence, Father Kiernan has just returned from the Brazilian church with the weeping statue.

But he said both the Chilean and Brazilian churches had experienced a problem of unity among the bishops as a result.

Between 1983 and 1991 and since 2006 he serves as President of the Indigenous Missionary Council of the Brazilian Catholic church.

"Rome is trying to create a depoliticized Brazilian church."