As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Brazil, the Brazilian Church is rising up in prayer.

American missionary Cindy Lucas shared a video to social media over the weekend showing Brazilians praying on the sidewalks of a local church.

Lucas, who is a missionary in neighbouring Paraguay, says her friends who work in Brazil shared the video with her.

Throughout the video, people can be seen (practicing physical distancing) on their knees and many with arms extended in prayer. Music playing on the video is the hymn 'Because He Lives' sung in Portuguese. The song has become an anthem for Brazilian believers during the pandemic.

According to John Hopkins University, Brazil has had over 11,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 487 deaths, and 127 recoveries.