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Religious dispute over Brazil's patron saint dominates election campaign

Rank
Ran
37h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
7
Languages
3

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The Guardian United Kingdom · English 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC

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Read it also in Español (6) · Italiano (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 38 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: El Financiero, 1 Oct, 02:35 UTC.
  2. Second country: Costa Rica, with La Nación (CR).
  3. Second region: Europe, with ANSA.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 18:03 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

39 of 39 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

75%25%

  • Americas 6 outlets · 5 countries · 75%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%

First movers

  1. El Financiero 1 Oct, 02:35 UTC
  2. La Nación (CR) +15h 28m
  3. ANSA +16h 24m
  4. El Sol de México +16h 38m
  5. El País (UY) +20h 52m

Last to join

  1. El Comercio 2 Oct, 17:02 UTC
  2. Infobae 2 Oct, 06:37 UTC
  3. The Guardian 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC
  4. El País (UY) 1 Oct, 23:27 UTC
  5. El Sol de México 1 Oct, 19:12 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Fake news about Brazil's patron saint disrupts presidential campaign, 28 to 30 Sept 2026, 14 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 5: Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay. Europe 2: Italy, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, Italian.
Timeline
Earliest article El Financiero, 1 Oct 2026, 02:35 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 17:02 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, Brazil. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Fake news about Brazil's patron saint disrupts presidential campaign. Continued by Las claves del primer round electoral de Lula y Flávio Bolsonaro; Dios y la Virgen en las urnas: la izquierda en Brasil aprende a jugar la carta de la fe; Nuestra Señora Aparecida sale en ayuda de Lula. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
1 Oct 2026 234 5.15 4 4 4 4 4.0
2 Oct 2026 217 5.36 8 7 3 3 4.0

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Started 1 Oct, 03:10 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 17:02 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 6 outlets

  • El Comercio Peru 2 Oct, 17:02 UTC
    La virgen patrona de Brasil se mete, sin haberlo pedido, en la última recta de la campaña presidencial
  • Infobae Argentina 2 Oct, 06:37 UTC
    Una disputa por la virgen patrona de Brasil dominó el final de la campaña electoral
  • El País (UY) Uruguay 1 Oct, 23:27 UTC
    Cómo están Lula y Bolsonaro en la última encuesta a tres días de las elecciones presidenciales en Brasil
  • El Sol de México Mexico 1 Oct, 19:12 UTC
    Disputa religiosa y desaire a debate en TV dominan el final de la campaña electoral en Brasil
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica 1 Oct, 18:03 UTC
    Fe y política: la controversia por Nuestra Señora Aparecida que divide a Brasil en tensas elecciones
  • El Financiero Mexico 1 Oct, 02:35 UTC
    Elecciones en Brasil: ¿Flávio Bolsonaro quiere retirar a Nuestra Señora de Aparecida como patrona?

Europe 2 outlets

  • The Guardian United Kingdom 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC
    ‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of election
  • ANSA Italy 1 Oct, 18:59 UTC
    Lula e Bolsonaro Jr divisi anche dalla fede, è guerra di religione
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