SÃO PAULO (RNS) — After more than two years of struggle, the Muslim community of Salvador, Bahia State, still waits for Harvard University to give back the skull of an enslaved African man who ...

Archbishop Geremias Steinmetz of Brazil gives communion to Sheikh Ahmad Saleh Mahairi in late August 2023. (Credit: Youtube screen capture.) Listen SÃO PAULO – During a funeral Mass of a major figure ...

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, many slave rebellions took place in the province of Bahia, Brazil. Among those, the most important one was the Malê Rebellion, a religious and ...

SÃO PAULO (RNS) — A group of Turkish Muslims has been accused of human trafficking after allegedly persuading poor Indigenous families in Brazil’s Amazon region to let their boys learn Turkish and ...

(AP) A court in Sao Paulo has ordered YouTube to remove clips of the video that has sparked protests across the Muslim world. In a statement, the court said Judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave the video ...

Pt. I. Bahian Society, Economy, and Rebellion during the Time of the Muslims -- 1. Hard Times -- 2. Revolts of the Free People -- 3. The Rebellious Tradition: Slave Revolts prior to 1835 -- Pt. II.