The 2009 American Music Awards - Arrivals

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Ne-Yo.The 2009 American Music Awards - Arrivals.Nokia Theatre L.A. Live.Los Angeles, CA.November 22, 2009.2009 Hutchins Photo.... Photo via Newscom

Ne-Yo.The 2009 American Music Awards - Arrivals.Nokia Theatre L.A. Live.Los Angeles, CA.November 22, 2009.2009 Hutchins Photo.... Photo via Newscom

The pastor Gilson Mastrorosa during a religious function of the new evangelic cult Bola de Neve Church (Snow Ball Church) the new sect that join people practicing surf and others radical sports in the temple located at the Barra da Tijuca quarter in Rio de Janeiro. All Bola de Neve churches use as altar a surf board, symbol of the Evangelis sect. Bola de Neve Church (Snow Ball Church) is a new brazilian evangelic church founded by the pastor Rinaldo de Seixas Pereira, 32 years old, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pastor Rina - as the faithfuls calls Rinaldo Pereira - is an expert of advertising a marketing, besides to be a surfer. The Snow Ball cult intends to convert untamable spirits of surfers, skate boarders, drug addictive into quite servants of God, to quite vicious and open hands of sex before the marriage. The prescription: music, video screens in which are showed scenes of radical sports, parties in night houses, regattas, cult very exiting and fresh drinks (Coca Cola and so on). The language of the the pastors is very informal and use a language close to the world of surfers. Most of the Bola de Neve's faithfuls are between 15 and 30 years old. According to some theologic experts Bola de Neve Church is an example of the new trend of the evangelic churches to be more specialized in order to attract new kind of faithfuls. In these last two years the new cult has puled from 1200 faithfuls to 3000 in all country. They are recorded and pay 10% of their salaries to the church. There are already seats in 8 cities of Brazil: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Florianopolis, Niteroi, Itacare, Ubatuba, Caraguatatuba, Santos. New seats will be opened in USA, Untington beach (California) and Hawai. As any others evangelic cults, the Bola de Neve churches' pastors are very aggressive and against the afro brazilian religion (Umbanda, Candonmble). The new cult are against homosexuality as well. Photo by Giuseppe Bizzari/Cameleon/ABACAPRESS.COM Photo via Newscom Photo via Ne

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