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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lençóis Maranhenses Park Have you ever tried visiting sand dunes? Sand dunes are a unique, natural phenomenon that offer a ...

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.

(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 ...