Protestant rally draws 3 million in Brazil
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About 3 million evangelical Protestants staged a huge rally Thursday in the heart of Brazil&#039;s biggest city, demonstrating their growing influence in the world&#039;s largest Roman Catholic country.
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Opposition supporters began what they said would be three days of nationwide demonstrations Wednesday.
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Brazil&#39;s ruling Workers&#39; Party (PT) held onto the mayoralty in at least three major cities in Sunday&#39;s municipal vote but will face a tough run
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Brazil&#39;s ruling party has made gains in Sunday&#39;s local elections seen as mid-term referendum on the government of left-leaning President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Hundreds of thousands turn out to back the main opposition candidate for the Venezuelan presidency.
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators massed  for a third day in the Ukrainian capital Wednesday to support  liberal opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who says he was  cheated of victory in Sunday's poll.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - A Brazilian presidential   candidate's campaign rally bumped into a harsh reality on   Wednesday in the form of armed gang members in a Rio de Janeiro   slum who ordered them to take a detour.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva&#39;s left-leaning Workers&#39; Party posted significant wins in nationwide municipal elections Sunday and expanded its reach into Brazil&#39;s mammoth interior.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da   Silva's commanding lead over his main rival in Brazil's   presidential race expanded slightly over the past week, a poll   showed on Tuesday.
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The Archdiocese of Valencia, Spain, said last week more than a million people in the province of Valencia alone have signed a petition to support religion classes in public schools.
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An estimated 3 million gays, lesbians and transvestites paraded down the main avenue of Brazil's business capital Sao Paulo on Sunday, showing their pride in a blaze of color and festive music, organizers said.
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil  - Brazil's President Luiz  Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday urged the world's poor and  hungry to unite against rich nations' interests before he  jetted off to a meeting of the globe's wealthy elite.
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Thousands of people across Spain took part in rallies called by the right wing opposition on Friday to protest the Socialists government's decision to allow a hunger-striking Basque separatist serve out his jail term under house arrest.
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Police fired tear gas and clubbed demonstrators in Brazil's largest city on Thursday as thousands protested against a visit by President Bush aimed at winning friends in Latin America.
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Supporters demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide hurled stones and fired shots in the air yesterday, the third straight day of violent protests that have killed 12 people so far.
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By Andrew Hay BRASILIA, Brazil  - More than 8,000 Brazilianlandless activists surrounded the central bank on Thursday andthreatened a big fight over land next year unless they get morepublic money to speed up land reform.
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Tens of thousands flocked to a religious rally in the Philippine capital's main park on Sunday in a show of defiance against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her supporters in the lower house of Congress.