Qualla: Abadiânia https://qualla.com/abadiania en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/7/abadiania-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Abadiânia https://qualla.com/abadiania Abadiânia: Introduction https://qualla.com/abadiania/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. Abadiânia once had sixty-eight hotels and guest houses, in a municipality of about seventeen thousand people. Within months of December 2018, eight were still open. That arithmetic is the whole story of the place: a farming town on the highway between Brasília and Goiânia had staked almost everything it earned on one man's clinic, and then the man was arrested, and the arrivals simply stopped.

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/7/abadiania-wp/6vj7-abadi-nia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abadiânia: The Town That Moved to the Road https://qualla.com/abadiania/ Photo credit Vinicius Moreira de Souza, CC BY-SA 4.0. Abadiânia has been a municipality since 1953, but the town you drive through today is not where it began. The original site was awkward to reach, and the residents fixed that themselves rather than waiting for anyone else to. House by house, they rebuilt along the highway eightee...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/7/abadiania-wp/6vj7-abadi-nia-the-town-that-moved-to-the-road.mp3 0:06 2 full Abadiânia: The City of Spiritual Cures https://qualla.com/abadiania/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1978 João Teixeira de Faria opened a centre on the edge of town called the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola. Faria, born in 1942, presented himself as a medium through whom spirits performed healings, and he became known as João de Deus - John of God. Over four decades the Casa dr...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/7/abadiania-wp/6vj7-abadi-nia-the-city-of-spiritual-cures.mp3 0:06 3 full Abadiânia: December 2018 https://qualla.com/abadiania/ Photo credit Vinicius Moreira de Souza, CC BY-SA 4.0. That December a Brazilian television programme broadcast the accounts of women who said Faria had sexually abused them during private consultations. Twelve came forward first. When Goiás state authorities opened a channel for reports, more than two hundred complaints arrived with...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/7/abadiania-wp/6vj7-abadi-nia-december-2018.mp3 0:06 4 full Abadiânia: The Record https://qualla.com/abadiania/ Photo credit Cristianopimenta, CC BY-SA 4.0. The convictions arrived in sequence, case by case, in the courts of Goiás. On 19 December 2019 Faria was sentenced to 19 years and 4 months for the rape of four women. In January 2020 came a further 40 years for the rape of five women at the Casa. In September 2023 a single rulin...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/7/abadiania-wp/6vj7-abadi-nia-the-record.mp3 0:06 5 full Abadiânia: Sixty-Eight Doors, Eight Open https://qualla.com/abadiania/ Photo credit Cristianopimenta, CC BY-SA 4.0. The pilgrimages ended almost at once. A town geared to four thousand arrivals a week was soon receiving fewer than a hundred, and of the sixty-eight hotels and pousadas, eight were still functioning. What became of the other sixty is the part nobody planned. The buildings were to...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/7/abadiania-wp/6vj7-abadi-nia-sixty-eight-doors-eight-open.mp3 0:06 6 full Abadiânia: What Was Already Here https://qualla.com/abadiania/ Photo credit João Paulo Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 3.0. Abadiânia counted 17,232 residents at the 2022 census, and the great majority of them never worked at the Casa. There are two waterfalls people come for on their own account, the Cachoeira do Ribeirão Curralinho and the Cachoeira Pedregulho, along with the Corumbá River and a cal...

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