Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The religion of Candomblé was banned for centuries out of fear that its celebrations were associated with witchcraft. Photograph ...

1 of 7 — At a sacred festival day in Sao Paulo, men possessed by orixas — spirits of the gods — dance before getting dressed in orixas costume. They are participating in an Olubaje party, a Candombl é ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic country, saw its Catholic population decline further in 2022 while evangelical Christians and those with no religion continued to ...

Elsewhere, an Umbanda priestess named Mother Fernanda -- the practitioner of another Afro-Brazilian religion -- tearfully assesses damage to her vandalized temple, where sacred items were destroyed ...

On this edition of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with author, artist, and anthropologist Dr. Umi Vaughan to discuss his new book Silencing the Drum: Religious Racism and Afro-Brazilian ...

SÃO PAULO (RNS) — After more than two years of struggle, the Muslim community of Salvador, Bahia State, still waits for Harvard University to give back the skull of an enslaved African man who ...

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 ...