{"id":1408,"date":"2014-03-06T19:52:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/wecannotremainsilent\/?page_id=1408"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T18:26:49","slug":"anivaldo-padilha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/biographies\/anivaldo-padilha\/","title":{"rendered":"Anivaldo Padilha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/04\/IMG_2807.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"329\" \/>In 1970 Anivaldo Padilha was a 30-year-old, up-and-coming lay leader in the Methodist Church. He was the director of the Methodist Church of Brazil Youth Department, which was supported by the World Council of Churches. In 1967 he was a member of Ac\u00e3o Popular, a left-wing organization, when he was studying at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo. He did not see a contradiction between his left-wing militancy and church activism. He was arrested on February 28, 1970, and taken to Operac\u00e3o Bandeirante, where was tortured to give up information about Ac\u00e3o Popular. He then moved to Washington after going to Uruguay and Argentina. Brady Tyson and another Methodist minister helped him get a visa to extend his stay in the United States, where he met fellow Ac\u00e3o Popular member <a title=\"Marcos Arruda\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/?page_id=1431\">Marcos Arruda<\/a>.\u00a0Read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/04\/AnivaldoPadilha_3222.pdf\">DOPS file<\/a> on Anivaldo Padilha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1970 Anivaldo Padilha was a 30-year-old, up-and-coming lay leader in the Methodist Church. He was the director of the Methodist Church of Brazil Youth Department, which was supported by the World Council of Churches. In 1967 he was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/biographies\/anivaldo-padilha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":397,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408\/revisions\/3061"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}