At the end of the month, the band will head out for their first shows in South America, with stops in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil ... at No. 1 on the U.K. charts, with the follow ...

a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, “got an intuition [that] something was going to happen.” (Umbanda is based on the idea of possession by the spirits. It was created in ...

The skull is among thousands of human remains the university has said it will return to their original Native American ...

Around the world, millions of people have traded the religious traditions of their upbringing for no religion at all.

The significant presence of samba-themes about Afro-Brazilian religions at this year's Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is not a mere "coincidence", but rather "a movement", according to songwriter ...

A panel of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat ...

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 ...

Once a climate champion, Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is pushing for more oil drilling, even as the country prepares to host the UN climate ...

HANOI, March 28 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday Vietnam may buy Embraer (EMBR3.SA), opens new tab planes and become a regional hub for Brazilian meat ...

March 29 - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that Vietnam may buy as many as 50 planes from Embraer, the Brazilian planemaker, and that another Brazilian company may ...

Kevin Lynch is a London-born, Dublin-based writer and journalist. The author of Steve Jobs: A Biographic Portrait, Kevin is a regular feature writer for a number of tech sites and the former ...