Muscular Christianity? Inspiring, though but. "...the results of their highly risky visits to Rio's slums are impossible to deny. Pastor Dione claims to have convinced several hundred criminals to swap their weapons for the word of god.
'If it wasn't for the pastor I'd be dead already,' said one teenage recruit, who claimed that before his conversion he had been employed to chop up corpses with an axe. A 21-year-old, Marcelo dos Santos, one of the youngest members of Pastor Dione's team, said: 'My mum gets worried about the early mornings and the shootouts but this is our work, our lives are in the hands of Jesus.'"
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