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Politics
José Gutierrez

Fake News, a Patron Saint, and a Debate: How Brazil's Runoff Campaign Became a Battle Over Faith

Brazil's President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) receives a statuette of Our Lady of Aparecida from a priest after a mass at the chapel of the Alvorada Palace on the day marking the celebration of Brazil's patron saint, Our Lady of Aparecida, in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 12, 2026. (Credit: Photo by Sergio LIMA / AFP via Getty Images)

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