Mag Oliveira embraces her daughter Najla as they pray in an area of the Abaete dune system, on a steep rise of sand evangelicals have come to call the "Holy Mountain", in Salvador, Brazil, late Friday ...

Lençóis Maranhenses, located in northeastern Brazil's Maranhão state, is a unique national park unlike any other desert in ...

A world-famous carnival, glorious beaches, legendary football players and beautiful, friendly people. Brazil’s reputation precedes itself, with millions of tourists every year choosing to visit the ...

Seeing clear blue pools of water in between miles of stretches of sand would make you think you're witnessing a mirage; except the lakes of Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses are a completely real and ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Home to both the world’s largest rainforest and mightiest waterfall — the Amazon and Iguazu Falls, respectively — Brazil is a place of ...

SALVADOR, Brazil -- The vast blanket of white sand overlooking Salvador is a place to escape rumbling traffic, pinging phones and crying children. A space to find solitude and, increasingly, God.

(AP) — Afro Brazilian religious groups see a public works project at the Abaete dunes as an attempt to Christianize yet another public space, part of evangelicals’ rising influence in the country’s ...