African objects of worship - it is also certain that Africans sought to find in Catholicism the social niches capable of providing a certain religious autonomy. It should be emphasized how Africans sought to transplant to Europe, and Brazil, the organization of festivals designed to honour the ancestor spirits, who, in return, should ensure their protection. This fact features the vigour of African religions, which have shown themselves capable of integrating a number of Christian practices while asserting their religious practices, characterized by the conjunction of theological discourse, music and dance. The regulation of religious fact proved to be fundamental because, on the one hand, it made it possible to recover the order organized in Africa and, on the other hand, it took account of the religion dynamics in Portugal, which, while it did not create new religions, forced some European and African religious codes to be modified.