"Brazil is a Spiritist country, not a Catholic country." There are over 14,000 Spiritist centers in Brazil. Spiritist worship takes two forms: Lower Spiritism that came with African slaves (voodoo, ...

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The five-mile crescent of Copacabana and the other Rio beaches blazed with the ritual candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil’s fastest-growing cult: “spiritism.” Altars were set up ...

You may watch the film here. Wagner de Assis’ Portuguese biographical drama ‘Kardec’ tells the true story of French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (Leonardo Medeiros), AKA Allan Kardec, the ...

American photojournalist Richard Bickel recently completed his 15th trip to Cuba on the heels of a natural disaster and a power grid failure.

Apart from being a beautiful language, Portuguese is also one of those languages not spoken in a limited geographical area. The best thing about such languages is that they allow you to cover more ...