News organizations around the world are reporting on a miraculous story of a newborn baby who died minutes after birth whose tiny body was laid on the altar in the hospital chapel by a grieving nurse who returned three hours later to find the baby alive.

The Washington Times is reporting that baby Yasmin Gome was born last week at Lincoln Graca hospital in Brazil but stopped breathing shortly after birth. Doctors were unsuccessful in reviving the child and she was pronounced dead.

The child's mother, Jenifer da Silva Gomes, 22, told The Sun that she was devastated when doctors were unable to revive her baby.

“My world crashed down right then,” she said. “It was the most desperate moment when all my dreams were snatched away.”

A nurse carried away the body of the little girl, which she reported had already begun to turn blue, but couldn't bring herself to put it in the morgue just yet. Instead, she took it into the chapel and laid it upon the altar.

Three hours later, Elza Silva, the baby's grandmother, and a mortician came into the chapel to fetch the baby and were shocked to see the child suddenly kick its foot and open her eyes.

“At first, I couldn’t believe it," Silva said. "We couldn’t accept that it could happen. Then we saw that she was breathing. We hugged each other and started to shout, ‘She’s alive, she’s alive.’ It was a miracle.”

Doctors later confirmed that little Yasmin is indeed alive and well and in good condition.

“In 20 years of medicine, I have never witnessed anything like this,” a doctor told The Sun.

Meanwhile, the family is planning to change the child's name to Victoria, which means "victory" in Portuguese.

“There is no explaining miracles," said the baby's mother. "They happen as God wants. If it was His will that our daughter had died, we would have accepted it, but He brought her back, so there must be a higher purpose in all this.”

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