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Despite the influence of North American "tele-evangelists" in Brazil, it is possible to speak of a Brazilian "Electronic Church" with its indigenous thaumaturgical practices. These broadcasts reinforce and promote a religiosity of daily ritual at the same time as using it, closely associating the healing of the sick and requests for financial aid. Donation is a fundamental element of healing, according to the modalities of popular Catholicism with its principle of an alliance and contract between believer and patron saint transferred to the television screen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]