People around the globe are leaving the religions of their youth amid a rising tide of disaffiliation, according to a ...

Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno left Minas Gerais for São Paulo because his aunt, a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian ...

There are about 250,000 Buddhists in Brazil, a tiny number for a country with more than 220 million people. Frank Usarski, a religion professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo ...

Jews began settling in Brazil once the Inquisition reached Portugal in the 16th century. In 1624, the Dutch — who were tolerant of Jewish migration and open practice of religion — took over ...

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 ...