Candomblé is a Brazilian religion that originated in West Africa and was brought to Brazil by enslaved Africans. The religion blends elements of African traditional religions with elements of ...

A brief overview of Candomblé, its origins in African beliefs and its colourful worship. Candomblé is a religion based on African beliefs which is particularly popular in Brazil. It is also practised ...

Candomblé was born of a people who were taken from their homes in Africa and transplanted to Brazil during the slave trade. Candomblé is an African-Brazilian religion. It was born of a people who were ...

Amid chanting and drumming, a crowd gathers in Sao Paulo and waits for the gods to come to them from the spirit world. They are celebrating a sacred festival day in honor of Omulu, a deity of life and ...

SALVADOR, Brazil – Forty-five minutes outside the downtown cobblestone squares choked with tourists and a world away from the World Cup, up a hill above the ocean and down a dirt road, there is a ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As my eyes adjust to the half-light, I discern through a veil of incense a line-up of objects fixed to the temple wall: axe heads, a ...

Just climb a hundred steps and you will enter a house in a white-painted building situated in a slum in the city of Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Salvador, the centre of the Candomble ...

The fight for the historical reparation of objects of religions of African origin is entering a new phase. By determination of the Institute for National Historic and Artistic Heritage (Iphan), the ...

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. The sound of atabaques, or ...