16 de dezembro de 2019
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Artigo de Opinião, Na mídia, Segurança Pública, Segurança Cidadã
No Rio de Janeiro, praticantes das religiões afro-brasileiras Candomblé e Umbanda estão cada vez mais sendo atacados por traficantes evangélicos
Publicado em The Conversation
Por Robert Muggah
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.
According to Brazil’s Commission to Combat Religious Intolerance, over 100 Afro-Brazilian religious facilities nationwide were attacked by drug trafficking groups in 2019, an increase on previous years. A national emergency hotline created to report such attacks finds that 60% of incidents reported between 2011 and 2017 occurred in Rio de Janeiro.
