At least 11 people have been killed in a week of clashes between Brazilian officers and one of the country's most powerful criminal groups in the Amazon region, according to a government report.

Thirteen people have died in recent gang-related violence in Porto Velho, Brazil, highlighting concerns about gangs' growing influence. The Comando Vermelho gang has clashed with police, leading to ...

Thirteen people have died in gang violence in the past four days in Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state in the Brazilian Amazon, where gang members have clashed with police, raising concerns ...

Brazilian law enforcement officials executed an operation that resulted in the deaths of six suspects implicated in planning ...

Brazilian authorities say police have killed six suspects during an operation to dismantle a gang accused of planning large-scale bank robberies.

Readers were also shocked by the story in March of a Brazilian-Spanish influencer who was gang-raped in India while camping during a motorbike trip. Federico Porci No, 30, grew up in Tirano ...

In a video posted on social media by the Brazilian outlet Metrópoles ... Jeremy Meeks, a former member of the Crips gang, was dubbed "hot convict" and "mug shot hottie" after he was arrested ...

Vital says Afro-Brazilian Umbanda and Candomblé religious houses have been shut down in surrounding neighbourhoods too, with gangsters sometimes drawing messages on the walls such as "Jesus is ...

When police in Rio de Janeiro seize blocks of cocaine and bundles of marijuana they may well find them branded with a religious symbol – the Star of David. This is not a reference to the Jewish ...

Evangelical Christianity will, by some predictions, overtake Catholicism as Brazil's biggest religion by the end of the decade. As it has grown, the charismatic Pentecostal movement has particularly ...