Alabama Missionary

 The Washington Post reports about Brazilian authorities ordering missionaries----including at least one from Alabama---to leave indigenous people in Brazil alone:

A missionary’s last stop

Another American missionary decided to stay. At the end of a quiet street in Atalai do Norte, he lives with his wife and four children in a large house he built himself. Blond and muscle-bound — nicknamed “He-Man” by local Brazilians — Josiah McIntyre, 38, has no intentions of leaving.

“I was called to live here,” he said.

McIntyre dismissed allegations that he had tried to enter isolated territories as “gossip.” He said he does not plan to contact isolated groups and contested assertions that missionaries were changing Indigenous culture. “You now have Indians hooked to pornography,” he said. “STDs and drugs and alcohol are on the rise. You’re now seeing gay Indians. They say we’re trying to change their culture, but I’ve never introduced any of those things.”

 More about the Brazil court's order that missionaries stay away HERE.