Caught Between the Spouse and the Spirit

Brazilian women find support and new roles at charismatic churches. Their husbands don't like it. Whom will they choose?

Francisca Maria Costa Lima was 21 years old when her husband first locked her out of the house.

It happened three times, and each time she had to bang on the door, with her Bible in the other hand, shouting at her husband to let her in.

The expletives her husband yelled back contrasted sharply with the prayers Francisca spoke in the Pentecostal church about 15 minutes earlier.

But she says she had known it would not be easy following this new wave of Pentecostalism with a husband stuck in the past. Read more