The mayor of this sultry metropolis slashed funding for Carnival, the city’s gay pride parade and a procession honoring an Afro-Brazilian goddess. Mayor Marcelo Crivella, a Pentecostal Christian, calls the moves fiscal prudence. But Rio’s liberals see a thinly veiled crusade to impose God’s law from city hall.

As religious conservatives gain power in Brazil, the city becomes an unlikely experiment.

Source: Rio’s Pentecostal mayor takes on the capital of Carnival