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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BELFORD ROXO, Brazil — Beyond the storefront churches and sidewalk bars on Rio’s gritty north side, where the asphalt ends and dirt roads begin, Brazil gives way to Africa. The sound of atabaques, or ...

According to Gilson Ferreira dos Santos, a Pai de Santo in Candomble, the Brazilian religion with African roots, he is the link between the spiritual world and According to Gilson Ferreira dos Santos, ...

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 ...