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Small Texas Town Hit By 16 Twisters In Deadly Tornado Rampage

REUTERS, CNN (US)

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GRANBURY – For seven hours overnight, at least 16 different twisters ripped through the town of Granbury, Texas, killing six people and leaving at least seven others missing. Sixteen injuries, some serious, were reported.

CNN reports that the search for survivors is still ongoing in the central Texas town of 8,000: “We’re not going to give up until every piece of debris is turned over,” said Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds. Some of the survivors had to undergo amputation procedures, while others suffered head injuries.

One of the tornadoes was rated EF4 (second most powerful level) by the National Weather Service. Reuters confirmed that natural disasters of such intensity were rare and very well capable of blowing entire neighborhoods clean off their foundations. A few other tornadoes were reported in surrounding towns, but the casualities and most of the damage was confined to Granbury.

One local resident, Ronna Cotton, 38, was quoted by Reuters: “The alarms were loud so I looked out the window, It was too late and the tornado was already here. I knew we had to get out of there. Our car was blocked by a fallen tree so we just ran down the street.”

The casualties lived n the same neighborhood mostly composed of Habitat for Humanity houses.

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A Brazilian Plea For Science, Religious Freedom And The Right To Samba As You Wish

An evangelic group has threatened to take legal action against a samba school because of its mix of religious iconography at the 2023 Carnival festivities. A Brazilian secular institute has a response.

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Rio carnival in full swing

Daniel Gontijo E Pirula

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SÃO PAULO — To celebrate religious diversity at 2023 carnival, the samba school Gaviões da Fiel in São Paolo combined Christian symbols with imagery from African religions — for example, Christ with Oxalá (a deity from Candomblé, an African diasporic religion).

Gaviões received a disclaimer note from the country's conservative Evangelical Parliamentary Front (FPE). In these politicians’ view, "one cannot compare Christ and Oxalá … under no circumstances", and there would only be one god, one Son, and one Holy Spirit.

Having interpreted this artistic syncretism as an immoral, vile act, the FPE is now threatening to take legal action against the samba school.

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