SÃO PAULO – A city council member in São Paulo has announced plans to subpoena a well-known priest and human rights advocate whose work has been praised by Pope Francis before a panel investigating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazil has pledged a series of sweeping measures to help a homeless population that has soared tenfold over the past ten years, ...

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s government will provide cheap credit and financial aid to help rebuild homes and businesses lost to record-breaking floods in the southern part of the country, while keeping ...

ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil — Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul on Tuesday, with at least 90 dead, thousands left ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Thousands of homeless workers on Wednesday marched peacefully on Brazil's Arena Corinthians stadium, which is to host the opening game of the soccer World Cup next week, pressing ...

Homeless children receive lunch distributed by volunteers on Christmas in Brasilia, Brazil, Dec. 25, 2020. (Photo by Lucio Tavora/Xinhua) Homeless men have lunch distributed by volunteers on Christmas ...

GUARUJÁ, Brazil (Reuters) - Supporters of jailed former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for a short time on Monday occupied the three-floor beach apartment that the leftist leader was ...

At least four people died on Monday in a fire at a homeless shelter in southeast Brazil caused by a suspected arsonist, authorities said.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – A city councilman in Curitiba, Brazil, presented a motion to the mayor suggesting homeless people should be sterilized. The document was approved by the council and sent to the ...

He's got barely one percent in the polls so far, but 35-year-old leftist Guilherme Boulos says Brazil is ripe for a new face willing to take on the corrupt and powerful in October presidential ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Police say they have arrested three men suspected of involvement in a spate of killings of homeless people in Brazil’s central-western state of Goias. Cuba says boat carrying ...

The heavy rains that have pounded the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul since the end of April have flooded 31 churches in the four vicariates of the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre. “Due to the height ...