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Alani is a 14 year-old Brazilian girl believed to have the power to perform miracles. Born to an evangelical priest, her story marks the rise of Evangelism in Brazil, the nation's fastest growing religious doctrine.
Rio's Vila Autódromo favela was once home to 900 families - until bulldozers arrived in the name of Olympic development. This report uncovers the reality of the Games for those fighting to keep their homes and their community alive.
As the mosquito-borne Zika virus continues to spread beyond Brazil, this moving report follows three mothers caring for babies with microcephaly, the condition inherited from an insect bite.
When 14-year-old school girl Isadora Faber published videos of her dilapidated school on Facebook, reform for Brazil's public education system soon followed. But not before violent harassment and death threats.
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For decades there has been an ongoing war between the police and the deprived population of the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro. After the torture and murder of Amarildo de Souza by the police, the community came together to fight against the systematic extermination and persecution of their people. It was the trigger that inspired a nation-wide re-evaluation of the role of the people.
In Brazil they're ripping down schools and cutting hospital funding to put up stadiums. No wonder that while Brazilians love the World Cup, they're protesting against having to pay for it in vital services.
While the world has been transfixed by the astonishing economic growth in China and India, just out of the spotlight Brazil has been busily turning a once moribund economy into a juggernaut.
Brazil has a lot more to offer than just amazing beaches and remarkable beauty. The many slums are disgraced by child sex trafficking, hundreds of thousands of girls and boys are bought, sold or kidnapped each year.
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