Brazil’s Presidential Candidates Court Evangelical Vote

SÃO PAULO—Less than two weeks ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are battling to portray themselves as closest to one particularly influential figure: God.

Brazil’s rapidly growing evangelical Christian movement, which accounts for a third of its population, has emerged as a driving force in the race, helping to elect scores of conservative candidates in the first round of voting in concurrent legislative and state elections earlier this month.