Baptists use audio devices on sunny batteries to illegally convert the Amazonian peoples to Christianity - The Guardian

Christian missionary groups use audio equipment on solar panels to attract and convert to Christianity, isolated or recently come in contact with the civilization of indigenous peoples in the rain forests of the Amazon. A joint investigation into the Guardian and Brazilian newspaper O Globo revealed that devices that reproduce biblical messages in Portuguese and Spanish appeared among representatives of the people of Corubo in the Zhavarivari Valley near the border of Brazil and Peru.

The first detected device-a yellow-gray block the size of a mobile phone-mysteriously appeared in the village of Corubo. The gadget endlessly reproduces the Bible and the inspiring speeches of the American Baptist. Local residents reported seven such devices, but photos and video signatures were received for only one of them.

A device called Messenger is distributed by the Baptist organization in Touch Ministries from Atlanta, Georgia. In an interview with Guardian, the chief operating director of the organization Set Gray confirmed the use of such devices, but said that Messenger should not be in the Zhavari Valley in violation of the Brazilian policy. He said that the missionaries "do not go where they are not allowed."

The Brazilian government does not allow proselytism in Corubo. Since 1987, state policy says that the isolated groups must initiate any contact. Sergeant Cardovan da Silva Soyro, an officer of the military police, who guides the protection of closed territories, also reported the appearance of “mysterious drones” over the base, usually in the evening.

Federal prosecutor Daniel Luis Dalberto, which controls the compliance with the rights of isolated and recently contacted peoples, noted a change in the methods of missionaries. According to him, "this is a hidden, disguised, inconspicuous appeal to faith." He notes that it is almost impossible to fight with this way.

In May, the indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon sued the New York Times, claiming that the material about the first acquaintance of the tribe with the Internet led to the fact that its members began to massively portray as obsessed with technologies and dependent on pornography. According to the lawsuit, the article by The New York Times for June 2024, written by journalist Jack and dedicated to the introduction of the satellite Internet of Starlink Ilona Mask, “depicted the people of Marubo as a community that is not able to cope with the basic access to the Internet, focusing on the accusations that the youth was carried away Pornography ".