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Video: Afro-Brazilians keep faith

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 A community keeps its Afro-Brazilian spirit alive 
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The eastern Brazilian state of Bahia is famous for the first church built by slaves, for slaves, hundreds of years ago.

Their descendents still practise Candomble, a once forbidden religion.

Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman takes a look at how despite all odds, the people of Bahia have kept their Afro-Brazilian beliefs alive in the world’s largest Catholic country.

 
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