Tag: Brazil

Fund Freezing Feature In Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

The Cryptonews.com reported on July 17, 2023 that “A blockchain developer has found a code in Brazilian central bank-backed digital currency (CBDC) that would allow the government to freeze accounts or even drain them at will.” It further stated that “the central bank’s official response is that they can do this at any time … Magalhaes said that Brazilian people have a valid reason to be scared given the country’s history. President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1990 froze the finances of all Brazilians for over a year just two weeks after he was elected. Several other privacy advocates have warned against CBDCs as they would grant government an unprecedented control on people’s finances. Many are afraid that there’s a high possibility that governments will use CBDCs as a mass surveillance tool to control people.”

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Bills provide for imprisonment for those who doubt vaccines in Brazil

Six bills in the Brazilian Congress criminalize everything from cutting in line to receive a vaccine to people who spread “fake news” about how vaccines work. Authored by Senator Angelo Coronel (PSD), PL 5555/2020 foresees the inclusion in the Criminal Code of imprisonment for one to three years for people who omit or oppose the mandatory vaccination of children or adolescents in a “public health emergency”. The project also criminalizes, with a penalty of two to eight years in prison, people who refuse to take the mandatory doses of vaccines. The same punishment also applies to those who spread “false news” about the vaccines or how they work. If the individual is a public employee, the penalty is doubled. The PL had its procedures updated in December 2022. At the time, it went through the Legislative Secretariat of the Federal Senate and had its continuity confirmed. The proposal was discussed again on social networks this month when the Senate website conducted a poll about the bill. The proposal was rejected by 92% of the people who answered the questions.” – Source.

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The 50th anniversary of the greatest religious movement few have heard of

A Catholic Charismatic Renewal youth healing service in Brazil in 2009. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons
A Catholic Charismatic Renewal youth healing service in Brazil in 2009. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons

(RNS) This month marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the most important Catholic lay movement of the past century.

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal ranks second only to Protestant Pentecostalism among significant new Christian movements to emerge over the past century. Like Pentecostalism, the CCR was made in the USA.

At a prayer retreat in a Pittsburgh suburb led by two Duquesne University professors, several students experienced baptism in the Holy Spirit.

From Duquesne, the new Catholic brand of Pentecostalism spread quickly to other universities in the Midwest, such as Notre Dame and Michigan State.   Continue reading →

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