Dozens of Brazilian yoga aficionados saluted the sun in Rio de Janeiro for the inaugural class of a free course allowing ...

In Rio de Janeiro's Rocinha favela, Brazilian residents are receiving free yoga teacher training, enabling them to overcome ...

The Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is home to more than 100,000 people. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

With 70,000 residents, Rocinha, where Amarildo lived, is the largest favela in Brazil. While undoubtedly impoverished, its buildings are largely concrete or brick-built and are connected to ...

In Rocinha, the gang warfare became so bad that the state called in the army for a week in September. Since then, heavily armed special police forces have patrolled the favela.

The Association of Rocinha Residents spent under a week organizing the event. According to the principal organizers, who are also participants in Academicos da Rocinha, the community’s Samba School, ...

Antônio Franciso Bonfim Lopes, Nem of Rocinha, had been born in the favela in May 1976 to an immigrant from Brazil's north east and a semi-literate mother who traced her antecedents back to the ...

Rocinha doesn’t yet have a UPP, or police pacification unit. Each of the city’s 19 units have been installed only after a territory is fully in control of the Rio police — certainly not the case here.

In Rio de Janeiro's Rocinha favela, dozens of yoga enthusiasts gathered for the inaugural class of a free program aimed at ...

In Rocinha, a favela crammed on a steep, rugged hill, community activist José Martins de Oliveira has counted 23 sewage waterfalls, each of them flowing down toward a beach popular with surfers.