Brasilia, Brazil (ENInews)–Prominent Brazilian biblical scholar and author Milton Schwantes died on 1 March after a long illness. He was 65. A pastor in the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil, and a professor of the Old Testament at the Superior School of Theology (EST) in São Leopoldo in the 1970s and early 1980s, Schwantes’ ecumenical witness influenced a generation of Brazilian and Latin American scholars, according to a report by the Latin America and Caribbean Communication Agency (ALC). [259 words, ENI-12-0130]