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Evangelical gangs in Rio de Janeiro wage ‘holy war’ on Afro-Brazilian faiths
I study violence in Latin America, and I’ve observed a sharp increase in reports of religiously motivated crimes in Rio de Janeiro since 2016, in particular attacks on “terreiros” – the temples of the Candomblé and Umbanda faiths.