Alex Minkin Alex Minkin is an independent scholar and social activist, focusing his research on Brazilian culture since 1996. He is the founder of Ticún Brasil, an innovative social justice NGO that ...

A Supreme Court reporter and an education reporter explain faith’s new role in schools. By The Morning Team By Adam Liptak I cover the Supreme Court. In just the last month, the Supreme Court ...

The main victims are religions of African origin, such as Umbanda and Candomblé. Their followers are threatened and their religious temples destroyed and ransacked. This intolerance is fuelled by ...

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 ...

Americans’ overall perceptions of religion tilt positive, according to the survey, but appear to have cooled since 2014. Overall, 51% express mostly positive views of religious institutions ...

Opinion Columnist. This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” My parents ate health food in my youth, in the days before Whole Foods was ...

One, the Confederação Espirita da Umbanda, claims ... “They are instinctively religious, but they need help and spiritual guidance which they cannot always get. All the Masses celebrated ...

After uncovering shocking allegations about the religious movement he once followed ... including Santería, Umbanda, Candomblé, and Palo Mayombe. On December 24, Yoruba traditionalists across ...

Among those who participated were followers of the Candomble religion, which was brought to Brazil by enslaved west Africans at the start of the 19th century. Partisans of the Umbanda religion ...

It's not an exaggeration to speak of religious intolerance in that territory." Vital says Afro-Brazilian Umbanda and Candomblé religious houses have been shut down in surrounding neighbourhoods ...

The seven waves represent the divine spirits of the Umbanda religion, making this not only a fun but also a deeply meaningful way to welcome the new year. Bring in good fortune by following this ...