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Electoral Court employees work on the final stage of sealing electronic voting machines in preparation for the general election run-off in Brasilia, Brazil, Oct. 19, 2022, ahead of the Oct. 30 second round vote. Valdemar Costa, president of the ruling Liberal Party, is calling on the electoral authority to annul votes cast on more than half of electronic voting machines used in the Oct. 30 election, citing a software bug. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

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Brazil election agency rejects Bolsonaro push to void votes
By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press
Wed,11/23/22-7:26PM , 63 Reads
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of Brazil's electoral authority on Wednesday rejected the request from President Jair Bolsonaro and his political party to annul ballots cast on most electronic voting machines, which would have overturned the
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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 night, Sept. 16, 2022. Evangelicals have been converging on the dunes for some 25 years but especially lately, with thousands now coming each week to sing, pray and enter trancelike states to commune with God.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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In sacred Brazil dunes, critics see evangelical encroachment
By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press
Wed,09/28/22-11:00PM , 73 Reads
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — 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.
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Members of the Afro Brazilian faith, Candomble, dance during a ritual honoring Obaluae, the deity of earth and health, at their temple on the outskirts of Salvador, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. Today just a small minority practices Afro Brazilian religions, and there have been increased reports of incidents of religious intolerance targeting them, particularly at the hands of members of Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal churches. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Bolsonaro campaign to evangelicals: Brazil's soul at stake
By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press
Tue,09/27/22-8:01AM , 108 Reads
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Off a byway outside Salvador, past an evangelical church and down a short path, Thiago Viana was preparing a celebration. Two new members of his temple would soon emerge from months of seclusion, marking initiation into his Afro Brazilian faith, Candomble.
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Houses in the Enchanted Valley sustainable community stand on the outskirts of Tijuca National Forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 6, 2022. Electricity arrived in the late 20th century to the low-income Enchanted Valley community, but the utility never connected it to the city’s sewage network, so its residents set out to solve the problem on its own by building a biodigester and artificial wetland to process all sewage generated by all of its 40 families. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

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How a favela in Rio got its clean water back, for $42,300
By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press
Sun,07/03/22-8:43AM , 176 Reads
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Butterflies and waxbills flit through the Enchanted Valley just outside Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest National Park. There are fruit trees, a nearby waterfall and a commanding view out over the Atlantic Ocean. But for decades something was spoiling the idyll: the stench of raw sewage.
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