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Someone placed a bomb on the electric meter of the terreiro. They were inside the terreiro having a ceremony when it exploded. The owner reported that vandals had previously stoned the temple and set fire to the columns but she had never filed a complaint with the police until the bombing. The police did an initial investigation but never followed through.

This terreiro received a hand written letter stating numerous racially and religiously discriminatory things. For example, the author threatened that the worshippers will begin to die one by one and said that blacks never should have ceased to be slaves. The author says that they are less than dogs and tells the family to take their demons and go to hell.

The Federal District's Fiscal Inspection Agency (Agência de Fiscalização do Distrito Federal),(Agefis), closed ten terreiros in Sobradinho and Planaltina, claiming that they needed a license for their economic activities. Activists argue that this is discrimination because their primary purpose is a religious space, not to sell things. Additionally, other religious communities engaged in similar "economic" activities and were not closed.

Patric worked for the department of transportation of Mesquita. He arrived to work wearing all white with his ilekes underneath his shirt. He said that when he arrived, people immediately started giving him dirty looks. When the Secretary of Transporation (his boss) arrived at 9am, the secretary told him that he was fired. Patric claims that he was fired just because of his white clothes (religious prejudice) and that he was fired in front of everyone. The department claims that he was fired because he had missed work four times since April 7. Patric did not deny missing work but does not believe that was the reason that he was fired.

Evangelized drug traffickers forced an 84-year-old mãe de santo to break all of her orixá shrines and then they destroyed the rest of her terreiro.

In 2014, an Evangelical church, Casa de Oração Ministério de Cristo, was built across from the Candomblé temple run by this 90-year-old priestess. Members of the church began to harass Mãe Dede and in mid-May of 2015, she filed a complaint with the police. Two weeks later, on May 30-31, the church held an overnight vigil outside the terreiro, shouting that she was a devil worshiper and a witch, and asking god to burn her temple down. Mãe Dede died of a heart attack during this vigil. Her family attributes her death to this vigil and the constant harassment that preceded it.

Around 6pm on Monday, March 25, a member of this terreiro  saw four traffickers jump the outside wall and start pulling down the security cameras.  Neighbors heard crashing sounds and heard the men saying to break everything, that the place was "theirs." The traffickers forbid the terreiro owners from returning to the space and made the building their headquarters. They destroyed many of the sacred objects inside the terreiro.  They marked the outside of wall with the words "Jesus is the owner of this place."

Unknown persons invaded this terreiro and broke all the ritual objects then overturned the other objects. The perpetrators stole a TV, a lawn mower, jewelry and about R$1000 that the devotees had raised for a party scheduled for October. 

On June 1, 2019, Extra Globo reported that this terreiro had been attacked that morning with damage to the outside wall. At that time, the newspaper indicated that four months earlier someone had broken through the gate of the terreiro and broken all the "images" inside.

Someone broke into this terreiro while the owner was sleeping. They broke images of saints, overturned other objects and tied up the owner's pet dog by the legs. Four other Umbanda terreiros had also been vandalized in this area in recent weeks.

Ricardo César reported that he opened this terreiro in 2010. In 2015, a Brazilian newspaper quoted his description of violence against his terreiro, saying "They broke my doors, broke everything down to the water pipes." However, it is unclear when these things occured.

During a ceremony, someone threw a massive stone at this terreiro that injured a woman. At the time, the community did not report it. They only disclosed it after they were attacked again in 2016.