Promoting community development projects in Uberlandia, Brazil, focusing on at-risk youth and their families.

(RNS) — Sharon Eubank, director of humanitarian services for the LDS church, says as governments pull back from humanitarian work, individuals can and should step up.

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday.

Promoting community development projects in Uberlandia, Brazil, focusing on at-risk youth and their families.

Wind and solar power generated more than a third of Brazil’s electricity in August. This marks the first time these renewable sources have crossed that threshold, according to government data analyzed...

Brazil’s Federal Police have arrested the Indigenous chief of the Mangueirinha Indigenous area in southern Paraná state. They accused José Carlos Gabriel, the chief of the territory comprising eight v...

Quilombos were communities formed by enslaved Africans who, upon escaping from plantations, rebuilt their traditions, developed sustainable alternatives for living, and became symbols of resistance.

The case involves a cattle-rancing subsidiary of the company

Several government agencies in southern Brazil have said they will stop ordering angelshark meat for public meal programs, in response to a Mongabay investigation that highlighted the widespread consu...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have raided a criminal group allegedly running an illict ride-hailing app. Authorities say the Comando Vermelho gang coerced motorcycle drivers into using the app in Vila Kenn...

Endangered angelsharks have been served to schoolchildren in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul for years, as well as in hospitals, clinics, shelters and other public institutions, Mongabay has ...

Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5-29 globally. In Porto Alegre, Brazil, traffic-related fatalities have surged, with 84 people losing their live...

(Reuters) -The world's largest car-carrying ship - with the equivalent of 20 football fields of vehicles - completed its maiden journey late last month to dock in Brazil's Itajai port. BYD, China's t...

Brazil now sits just above Venezuela in a global ranking of government efficiency, according to the 2025 Global Competitiveness

The most deforested biome in Brazil, the Cerrado lost 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) of native vegetation in 2024. Now, it is about to receive a thermoelectric plant 30 km (18 miles) from the Na...

Promoting community development projects in Uberlandia, Brazil, focusing on at-risk youth and their families.

Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project lets citizens earn money from their data. It is ahead of similar U.S-based initiatives.

The Public Labour Prosecutor's Office in the state of Bahia says 220 Chinese workers were rescued.

While more than half of Brazil’s population is Black, the history of the country’s Afro-descendants is often taught only in relation to slavery – leaving more than a century of history, culture and ar...

Five cities in southern Brazil have suspended classes due to the region’s heat wave. Temperatures in some places have risen as high as 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit).

Temps soar in Brazil's summer (from December to March). Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a typical design that's too heavy for a favela home.

How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life

In the quiet Swiss town of Davos, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain unfolds as young Hans Castorp’s brief visit to a sanatorium turns into a seven-year exploration of ideas, intrigue, and debates. The ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday signed a bill restricting the use of smartphones at school, following a global trend for such limitations.

In an incredibly active month in Brazil's ongoing anime piracy struggle, Japan's CODA claims victory over one of the country's biggest offenders.

Brazilian-made dramas rarely last long in local cinemas. But, nearly two months after its release, “I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for...

The 163 Chinese workers found in a construction site of a factory owned by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD in Brazil's Bahia state were victims of international human trafficking, said local labor authorities.

Jinjiang Group, a contractor for giant Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD, said Thursday that Brazilian authorities’ portrayal of its employees as “enslaved” was inconsistent with the facts and that t...

A bridge linking two northern states in Brazil collapsed, sending cars and trucks plunging into the river below. A sulphuric acid spill is complicating the rescue operation.

Brazil’s soybean crushing capacity over the next three years is expected to increase at nearly twice the rate of the last three years, according to Itau BBA’s Agro Consulting.

Perched high atop Corcovado Mountain, the Cristo Redentor, as Brazilians call it, is a postcard not only for the city of Rio de Janeiro but for the entire country. But now, its management and future a...

Brazilian prosecutors found that workers building a factory for Chinese automaker BYD in Camacari in Bahia state were subject to "degrading working conditions," with passports confiscated and parts of...

More than 160 workers have been rescued, according to local prosecutors.

A small plane with 10 people aboard crashed into shops in the center of the tourist city of Gramado in southern Brazil on Sunday, civil defense officials said, and initial reports indicated that there...

‘Ours is the only city in Brazil where the Confederate flag flies,’ said a city council member in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste. A new law there bans ‘symbols that promote racist and segregationist ideas.’

Never before has the Brazilian real been so weak against the dollar.

Promoting community development projects in Uberlandia, Brazil, focusing on at-risk youth and their families.

Promoting community development projects in Uberlandia, Brazil, focusing on at-risk youth and their families.

Inequality takes root in the first five years of life, and only by acting now will we break the cycle of disparity and poverty.

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Promoting community development projects in Uberlandia, Brazil, focusing on at-risk youth and their families.