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AP PHOTOS: Afro-Brazilian religious leaders run for office

by Marcelo Silva DE Sousa
| November 12, 2020 9:57 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Wagner Machado, a priest from the Afro-Brazilian faith Umbanda, was focused on final details for a religious ceremony in a public square. Wooden drums stood ready, a vase of roses was atop a white tablecloth and the scent of incense was wafting through the air. Then a passerby shattered the silence:

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