HOWEVER, Brazil may have the largest amount of ethnic Lebanese on the planet … at least 10 Million. So, to give condolences to the victims of the August 4 explosion in Beirut, Brazil lit up the Christ the Redeemer statue.
Brazil has a massive Arab community, probably as much as 15 million. Luckily for Brazil, their Arabs are heavily Maronite Christian, who tend to be moderate – unlike Chile, whose Arabs are anti-Zionist Palestinians.
However, Brazil also has an incredibly large Evangelical Christian community, which is decidedly pro-Israel. At this time, the Evangelicals have the ascendancy.
The video above is a religious internet show, aimed at the Evangelicals of Brazil, about Bible prophecy happening in Israel.
The title is Unveiling the Prophecies: The Gospel to the Nations – 2.
This distinguishes Brazil from most of Latin America, indeed, most of the world.
Habib’s was founded by a Portuguese-born baker, Alberto Saraiva, who had no particular ties to the Middle East himself, got the idea early in 1988 after an ailing old man of Arab descent applied for a job in his bakery. With no job at hand for the man to apply to, but upon learning that he had been a cook back in his home land, Mr. Saraiva decided to open a small fast-food restaurant focused on Middle-Eastern fast-food, unheard at the time in Brazil, believing the success could rely on the novelty of it, and hired the man. … The first Habib’s restaurant was opened later that same year.