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A girl holds her doll in an alley of the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. The narrow alleyways of Brazil's largest favela reduce airflow around homes packed tightly together and the poor neighborhood, which lacks proper sewage, has a high incidence of tuberculosis. Authorities are concerned that COVID-19 could easily spread in the favelas of Rio. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A girl holds her doll in an alley of the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. The narrow alleyways of Brazil's largest favela reduce airflow around homes packed tightly together and the poor neighborhood, which lacks proper sewage, has a high incidence of tuberculosis. Authorities are concerned that COVID-19 could easily spread in the favelas of Rio. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

March 30, 2020

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Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine
March 30, 2020 10:03 p.m.

Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Like every Sunday, Brazilian Pastor Silas Malafaia took the stage of his Pentecostal temple in a middle-class Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. But this week, he wore a T-shirt instead of a blazer and, behind the three cameras broadcasting to his legion of YouTube followers, were thousands of empty seats.