SALVADOR, Brazil -- The vast blanket of white sand overlooking Salvador is a place to escape rumbling traffic, pinging phones and crying children. A space to find solitude and, increasingly, God.

A world-famous carnival, glorious beaches, legendary football players and beautiful, friendly people. Brazil’s reputation precedes itself, with millions of tourists every year choosing to visit the ...

Visit Brazil’s northeast coast and a tree that has become a major tourist attraction. Long stretches of Brazil’s northeast coast are lined with sand dunes, some of them so vast that they create their ...

Located in the northeastern state of Ceará, Jericoacoara is a remote paradise where vast sand dunes meet crystal-clear ...

Mag Oliveira embraces her daughter Najla as they pray in an area of the Abaete dune system, on a steep rise of sand evangelicals have come to call the "Holy Mountain", in Salvador, Brazil, late Friday ...

(AP) — Afro Brazilian religious groups see a public works project at the Abaete dunes as an attempt to Christianize yet another public space, part of evangelicals’ rising influence in the country’s ...