SALVADOR, Brazil – Forty-five minutes outside the downtown cobblestone squares choked with tourists and a world away from the World Cup, up a hill above the ocean and down a dirt road, there is a ...

A version of this story appeared in the June 19-July 2, 2015 print issue under the headline: Candomble fights persecution, mixes with Catholicism in Brazil. Candomblé devotees take part in rituals and ...

Rafael Tonon is an award-winning journalist, writer, curator, and researcher, covering food trends and the restaurant industry in Brazil and Portugal for Slate, The Washington Post, Epicurious, Atlas ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Unlike her compatriots, Rita de Cassia Marciano doesn’t get too stressed out during Brazil’s World Cup matches. She knows Brazil is going to win its sixth title: The gods told ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As my eyes adjust to the half-light, I discern through a veil of incense a line-up of objects fixed to the temple wall: axe heads, a ...

Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion, has been widely practiced by people of African descent in Brazil but mostly in secret — until now. After... Brazilian Believers Of Hidden Religion Step Out Of ...

Marriages celebrated under Umbanda and Candomblé religious rites are now officially recognized in the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro as per Law 11.058/25, penned by legislator Átila Nunes of the ...

When Brazilian fashion designer Rogeria Ferreira was told to remove the turban she wears as a member of the African-inspired Candomble religion for an ID picture, she decided to fight back: the turban ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Unlike her compatriots, Rita de Cassia Marciano doesn't get too stressed out during Brazil's World Cup matches. She knows Brazil is going RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Unlike her compatriots ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Unlike her compatriots, Rita de Cassia Marciano doesn't get too stressed out during Brazil's World Cup matches. She knows Brazil is going to win its sixth title: The gods told ...