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  • A Christian crucifix stands encased in a wooden box that has been attached to a panelled wall in Quebec, Canada. The image is white except for the Jesus icon itself and coloured lights which glow on this dark afternoon in the depths of Winter. The religious shrine consists of the human effigy standing a plinth next to faded dried flowers. On the left side are six wheel hubs also fixed to a wire fence that borders this person's property. Their decorative design suggests the Canadian owner likes driving sports or utility vehicles but who is also a worshipper of the Christian faith and believer in idols. Canada's 2001 Census showed, 72% of the Canadian population listed Roman Catholicism or Protestantism as their religion. The Roman Catholic Church in Canada is by far the country's largest single denomination.
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  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priest and disabled homeless man. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Worshippers in a church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador de Bahia, seen as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Drummers in the street outside a church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Mixed race middle aged Brazilian woman praying in Church at front of ceremony. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony giving communion. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony and holding hands. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony and holding hands. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Incense being spread. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priest at the altar and people workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Congregation coming into Church / People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Altar of Sao Lazaro. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Candles for the dead. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Homless disabled man lying on the floor next to the altar. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Plastic legs to represent healing hang from the ceiling of the church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Offerings for the poor and sick. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People showing their devotion to Sao Lazaro at an altar. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People showing their devotion to Sao Lazaro at an altar. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priest and Bahiana woman. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Bahiana tradtionally dressed woman. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Woman dressed in white. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Basket of bread as an offering. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Drummers in the street outside a church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Drummers in the street outside a church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Drummers in the street outside a church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Drummers in the street outside a church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priest blessing the congrigation with Holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Trainee Priest showing his devotion. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Mixed race middle aged Brazilian woman praying in Church at front of ceremony. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Mixed race middle aged Brazilian woman praying in Church at front of ceremony. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony, drinking holy water. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony giving communion. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony giving communion. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Homeless poor man at the front of the service. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Homeless poor man at the front of the service. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Priests conducting the ceremony. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People showing their devotion to Sao Lazaro at an altar. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Man with one leg in the congregation, listening. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Congregation coming into Church / People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Congregation coming into Church / People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Woman being blessed by a Bahiana outside the church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Woman being blessed by a Bahiana outside the church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Dog being blessed by a Bahiana outside the church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Man paying his respects to the dead with candles. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Woman paying her respects to the dead with candles. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Woman being blessed by a Bahiana outside the church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Woman being blessed by a Bahiana outside the church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • People workshipping in Church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Woman showing her devotion to Sao Lazaro at an altar. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Plastic legs to represent healing hang from the ceiling of the church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Man being blessed by a Bahiana outside the church. Often the lines between Candomble and Catholicism are blurred. This is especially true with the Sao Lazaro event in late January in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the city which is known as the home of Candomble. Sao Lazaro represents healing and the sick.
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  • Adherants are cleansed by the Babalawos conducting the ceremony,  Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Adherants are cleansed by the Babalawos conducting the ceremony,  Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Adherants are cleansed by the Babalawos conducting the ceremony,  Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Cigar and dancing, ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Often part of the ritual involves dressing as colonialist sugar farmers. Ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Popcorn on the ground with feet, part of a ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Master of ceremonies; Babalawo, conducting a worship Ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Master of ceremonies; Babalawo hugs one of the adherants at a Ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Master of ceremonies; Babalawo hugs one of the adherants at a Ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Young girl walks across the altar. Ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Adherants are cleansed by the Babalawos conducting the ceremony,  Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Master of ceremonies; Babalawo, conducting a worship popcorn Ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Master of ceremonies; Babalawo hugs one of the adherants at a Ceremony at Terreiro (yard) peace and love / Terreiro Paz y Amor, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Often the lines between Candomble, Catholicism and Umbanda are blurred. Salvador de Bahia is seen as the home of Candomble.
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  • Father Chris Vipers is a Catholic Priest and says a brief prayer in the private dressing backroom called the Sacristy (also known as the Vestry) before Mass at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. He is wearing a decorative red Chasuble (the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for the celebration of the Eucharist in Western-tradition Christian Churches that use full vestments, primarily in the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches). Saying a brief prayer to a photograph portrait of Cardinal Newman. Father Vipers is about to go out into the main church where his congregation awaits for the Mass, this morning with the theme of St Bartholomew, the Apostle.
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  • Reflected in a mirrored wardrobe door, Father Chris Vipers is a Catholic Priest chooses a chasuble that befits the character of the morning Mass in private dressing backroom called the Sacristy (also called the Vestry) at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. The Father (the more formal term for a Catholic priest by his congregation) is already wearing an Alb which is the white linen vestment with close fitting sleeves, reaching nearly to the ground and secured round the waist by a girdle (cincture). Father Vipers is choosing a red chasuble to suit the Mass in honour of St Bartholomew, the Apostle.
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  • Reflected in a mirrored wardrobe door, a Catholic Priest puts on his Alb before morning Mass in the church's private dressing backroom called the Sacristy (also called the Vestry) at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. Using morning summer light from the window of his private dressing room, the Father (the more formal term for a Catholic priest by his congregation) is about to put the Alb over his head. The Alb is the white linen vestment with close fitting sleeves, reaching nearly to the ground and secured round the waist by a girdle (cincture). He is already wearing his Amice, an oblong linen cloth (at least 32 inches long and 24 wide), which is first placed upon the head and then brought down and drawn about the neck where it is fastened with cords. Originally it served as a head-covering for the priest.
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  • With his back to the viewer, a young boy reads prayers and hymns in a local parish Catholic Church during his local Sunday service in Evreux, Normandy, France. Surrounded by members of his rural, French community the boy sits pretty much on his own, left alone to experience the congregation and the regular Mass of the Catholic church. The pews are wooden and old and in the distance we see the priest (Le Pretre) conducting the service with older people towards the front. It is estimated that 60% of France's population are Catholic, though much fewer are regular churchgoers. The church is organised into 98 dioceses, served by 20,523 priests.
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  • Coca Dai and Juan Juan sign a document during their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
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  • Choir members sing during a wedding ceremonies at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
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  • Coca Dai and Juan Juan pray during their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.  A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
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  • Juan Juan stands with her step father while waiting to take the walk down the aisle during her wedding ceremony to Coca Dai at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.  A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
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  • Juan Juan, in the arms of her step father, walks down the aisle during her wedding ceremony to Coca Dai at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
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  • Coca and Juan Juan makes final preparations before their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai056.jpg
  • Coca and Juan Juan makes final preparations before their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai055.jpg
  • A man directs the choir members during a wedding ceremonies at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.  A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
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  • Coca Dai and Juan Juan take their wedding vows during their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai082.jpg
  • Coca Dai stands in attendance during his wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.  A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai062.jpg
  • Coca Dai talks with his priest to make the final preparations before his wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
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  • A Catholic confessional between a penitent parishioner and her local priest at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. While kneeling to face the priest, the lady speaks in absolute confidence and secrecy to a screen beyond which the man listens and offers spiritual advice. A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation. Usually, the priest and penitent are in separate compartments and speak to each other through a grid or lattice and a crucifix hangs over the grille. But here, a screen grille inserted in it separates the two. The penitent may be able to see the priest through the screen, but the priest can usually never see the penitent - hearing instead of the person's sinful admissions.
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  • Father Chris Vipers is a Catholic Priest who is raising the wafer during Liturgy of the Eucharist Mass at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. Positioned at the altar that serves as the holy table, he uses the wafer as the sacramental bread, sometimes called the lamb, altar bread, host or simply Communion bread and is the bread which is used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist. All of this takes place in the main section of the church where the priest's congregation participates this morning with the theme of St Bartholomew, the Apostle. A painting of a Holy scene has been reproduced above the altar and we see a few heads of his local community looking on.
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  • A Catholic confessional between a penitent parishioner and her local priest at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. While kneeling to face the priest, the lady speaks in absolute confidence and secrecy to a screen beyond which the man listens and offers spiritual advice. A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation. Usually, the priest and penitent are in separate compartments and speak to each other through a grid or lattice and a crucifix hangs over the grille. But here, a screen grille inserted in it separates the two. The penitent may be able to see the priest through the screen, but the priest can usually never see the penitent - hearing instead of the person's sinful admissions.
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  • An aerial view of the rural Catholic church of Le Neubourg during the Sunday Mass for the local community. Local children help Father Phillipe Dubos, their parish priest conduct the Mass in front the rest of the congregation of parents and other regular churchgoers. Sunlight lights the beautiful stained glass windows and 16th century medieval columns and arches of Neubourg, Normandy. It is estimated that somewhere between 83% to 88% of France's population are Catholic. The church is organised into 98 dioceses, served by 20,523 priests.
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  • Three members of a French family walk into their local Catholic church at Equetot in rural Normandy early on a misty morning. Led by the mother and father, a young boy walks fast on the church property gravel and on to the large old flagstones that are laid at the 16th century church door entrance. Lingering mist remains in tall popular trees in the distance though the sun is burning through this cold morning. It is estimated that somewhere between 83% to 88% of France's population are Catholic. The church is organised into 98 dioceses, served by 20,523 priests.
    catholic_church1-12-10-1997_1.jpg
  • A Catholic confessional between a penitent parishioner and her local priest at St. Lawrence's Catholic church in Feltham, London. While kneeling to face the priest, the lady speaks in absolute confidence and secrecy to a screen beyond which the man listens and offers spiritual advice. A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation. Usually, the priest and penitent are in separate compartments and speak to each other through a grid or lattice and a crucifix hangs over the grille. But here, a screen grille inserted in it separates the two. The penitent may be able to see the priest through the screen, but the priest can usually never see the penitent - hearing instead of the person's sinful admissions.
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  • Purple Catholic confessional curtains in St Vitas Cathedral in Prague Castle, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral. This cathedral is a prominent example of Gothic architecture and is the largest and most important church in the country. It is located within Hradcany-Prazsky Hrad Prague Castle in the Czech capital.
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  • Purple Catholic confessional curtains in St Vitas Cathedral in Prague Castle, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral. This cathedral is a prominent example of Gothic architecture and is the largest and most important church in the country. It is located within Hradcany-Prazsky Hrad Prague Castle in the Czech capital.
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  • Purple Catholic confessional curtains in St Vitas Cathedral in Prague Castle, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus, and is still commonly named only as St. Vitus Cathedral. This cathedral is a prominent example of Gothic architecture and is the largest and most important church in the country. It is located within Hradcany-Prazsky Hrad Prague Castle in the Czech capital.
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