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		<title>Brazil&#8217;s evangelical movement has become a major social, political force</title>
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		<title>Religions, cults get sacred space in Brazil park</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March 31 (Reuters) &#8211; 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&#8217;s Tijuca Forest.
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		<title>African religions resurgent in Brazil</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BELFORD ROXO, Brazil &#8212; Beyond the storefront churches and sidewalk bars on Rio&#8217;s gritty north side, where the asphalt ends and dirt roads begin, Brazil gives way to Africa.
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