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 to win its sixth title: The gods told ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAGOA SANTA, Brazil (AP) — When Brazilian soccer player Paulinho scored a goal at the Tokyo Olympics, he celebrated by pointing an imaginary arrow at the flashing cameras as homage to a deity in his ...

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 ...