Publicity poster for Brazil’s Semana Nacional da Vida – Week of Life – in 2025. Image courtesy of the Brazilian National Bishops’ Conference. Listen SÃO PAULO – Brazilian Catholics concluded a week of ...

BELÉM, Brazil, Jul 28 (IPS) - The decade-and-a-half-long battle for life in the so-called Volta Grande (Big Bend) of the Xingu river, a stretch of the river dewatered by the Belo Monte hydroelectric ...

From beach football on the Copacabana to giant kickabouts in the Amazon, football is a national obsession in Brazil. The Faroe Islands may seem like an odd place to begin a book about football in ...

For each bag of 70 kilograms of nuts (about 154 pounds), which takes about eight hours to fill, a harvester earns the equivalent of about $40 – Copyright AFP/File ...