Tag: Copacabana beach

• Monday, July 14th 2014 - 05:07 UTC

  Brazilians join Germans in celebrating the World Cup and Argentina's defeat

  

  Brazilians bitter about their team's disastrous World Cup celebrated Argentina's defeat to Germany in the final Sunday by dancing and launching fireworks, relieved that their arch-rivals failed to triumph on their soil.

• Monday, July 29th 2013 - 03:10 UTC

  ”Shake the church, go spread the word of God”, Francis tells 3 million at closing mass

  

  Pope Francis on the last day of his week long pilgrimage to Brazil urged Catholics to reject selfishness, hatred and intolerance to help build a new world.

• Friday, July 26th 2013 - 04:14 UTC

  Defying the weather, 1.5 million turn out to greet Francis as Copacabana beach

  

  A huge crowd estimated in 1.5 million people defied rain and chilly weather to greet Pope Francis on Rio do Janeiro’s Copacabana beach on Thursday. With his captivating charisma Francis repeated a theme of his visit to Brazil urging young Catholics to shun the trappings of materialism and put Jesus Christ at the center of their lives.

• Wednesday, July 24th 2013 - 07:19 UTC

  Mass with 400.000 Catholics in Copacabana beach marks opening of World Youth Day

  

  Around 400,000 Roman Catholics have joined a Tuesday evening ceremony on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to mark the opening of World Youth Day. The highlight of the festival will be a visit on Thursday by Pope Francis.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 06:45 UTC

  The most spectacular New Year parties in Brazil, says World Travel Guide

  

  Rain on the last night of 2011 but which stopped a few minutes before 24 tons of fireworks were set off didn’t stop 2 million people from attending Rio de Janeiro’s main New Year’s festival, an event that was confirmed to be the largest of its kind in the world.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 00:58 UTC

  Hundreds of brooms in Rio’s beaches to protest Brazilian rampant corruption

  

  A total of 594 brooms representing Brazil’s 81 senators and 513 members of the Lower House have been planted in the famous Copacabana beach of Rio do Janeiro by a non government organization demanding for action against rampant corruption.