one reason why some estimates put followers of Candomblé and its sister religion, Umbanda, in the tens of millions, not the official half a million or so who admitted to it in the 2010 government ...

A mounted knight is displayed on the altar in Rita Coccaro's home. Penn State University/MCT Rita Coccaro is the high priestess of the Umbanda Temple of Caboclo Virgin Forest, if “temple” is ...

123 reports of religious-based violence were seen between January and October 2019, compared to 14 for all of 2016, the Washington Post reported. Robert Muggah, founder of Brazil’s Igarapé Institute, ...

Both Candomble and Umbanda are a fusion of different beliefs ... Damas, who is also the founder of the Commission for Combating Religious Intolerance, took the complaint to civil rights lawyers ...

Followers are often prohibited from practicing their faith, and people caught wearing the religious garb of Candomblé and Umbanda may be expelled from the community. According to representatives ...

GABRIEL_VOLPI In 2018, Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno left Minas Gerais for São Paulo because his aunt, a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, “got an intuition [that ...

The faithful of Umbanda, a religion that was born in Brazil, always perform rituals of spiritual protection as part of the pre-Carnival traditions. A spiritual mentor walked past Laura in her Casa ...