Elder Ulisses Soares and Sister Rosana Soares visited Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last week, returning to the place where each had served as young missionaries just over four decades ago.
Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles says religious freedom provides the architecture diverse societies need to be healthy. He spoke at a religious freedom symposium in Rio de Janeiro.
The Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple is a beacon for life, said Elder Ulisses Soares of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The apostle is showing the temple to Cardinal Orani Tempesta, the archbishop of Rio, and other Brazilian religious leaders during the temple open house.
First day of vaccinations against Covid-19 on Jan.18, at Christ the Redeemer, during an event hosted by the Archdiocese in Rio de Janeiro. Terezinha da Conceição receives her shot from nursing technician Dulcinéia da Silva Lopes. Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil
Brazil is famous for having one of the most successful public vaccination programs in the world. Every year, more than 300 million doses of serums and vaccines are produced and distributed throughout the continent-sized country.
Vaccination programs have eradicated diseases like smallpox and polio and continue to prevent outbreaks of measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. Brazil’s vaccination programs regularly reach people in urban peripheries, rural areas and the indigenous communities of its vast interior.