11.   It also comes at time when large numbers of Brazilians are leaving the Catholic church for evangelical Protestant sects.

12.   Marginalized towns are more likely to have been visited in the past by foreign missionary groups, particularly from the Protestant sect.

13.   The rest is divided among Protestant sects and native animist groups.

14.   Six members of a obscure Protestant sect were accused in a German court Wednesday of sexually abusing and imprisoning a woman while attempting to exorcise her of demonic obsessions.