Biography
Silas Malafaia is a Brazilian Pentecostal pastor, author and televangelist. He leads the Assembleia de Deus Vitória em Cristo church and hosts the television programme Vitória em Cristo.
Malafaia appears as himself in the 2024 documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, directed by Petra Costa, which examines the influence of evangelicalism on Brazilian politics. He has made numerous other television and documentary appearances as Self, including The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros (2022).
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1958, Malafaia studied theology and psychology. He is married to Elizete Malafaia.
