Chapter 3 MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA

Pope Opens Tour of Latin America in Brazil

After watching the Pope Opens Tour of Latin America in Brazil video, consider the questions below. Then "submit" your response.

1. On arriving in São Paulo, Pope Benedict said that the Catholic Church

Stresses the need to support families and protect life

Would set up economic development funds in Brazil

Would work with the government of Brazil to ensure that everyone is Catholic

None of the above

2. In poor communities, the church has

Grown rapidly in membership

Lost members to evangelical and Pentecostal faiths

Ignored human needs

Established a new chain of clinics

3. In Brazil, Catholicism has

50,000,000 followers

100,000,000 followers

156,000,000 followers

200,000,000 followers

4. Brazilian officials have said they may

Change the status of the Catholic church in Brazil

Send all Brazilian children to secular schools

Reconsider a ban on abortion

Impose restrictions on religious freedom in Brazil