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Wednesday September 27, 2006

Brazil:

Brazil’s evangelical movement has become a major social, political force

Brazil’s evangelical movement, which U.S. churches started a century ago, has exploded in this traditionally Roman Catholic country, nearly doubling during the 1990s to some 26.2 million people, or about 15 percent of the population, according to the most recent census, taken in 2000.
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Thursday March 31, 2005

Brazil:

Religions, cults get sacred space in Brazil park

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March 31 (Reuters) - Aderbal Ashogun, a priest in the Afro-Brazilian religion called candomble, claps his hands three times and says a prayer before putting out a candle left at the foot of a tree in Rio de Janeiro's Tijuca Forest.
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Saturday January 1, 2005

Brazil • Candomble:

African religions resurgent in Brazil

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.
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