Salvador da Bahia (regularly known as Bahia), a city of 2.2 million nicely situated on the norhteast coast (in the state of Bahia, Brazil), is revered by people of Brazil as their center of religious activity. Catholics from all over the country make pilgrimages to Bonfim to ask for miracles. Bahia is also the birthplace of the Afro-Brazilian religion candomble, a Yoruba faith similar to Haiti’s voodoo and Cuba’s Santeria. Like other cities where African spirits have migrated –Havana, Port-Au-Prince, New Orleans—Bahia
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