For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells. But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South America and ...

For centuries, Haitians have turned to voodoo priests in times of illness, heartbreak, and confusion, relying on the native clergymen to counsel them or take up their case with the powerful African ...

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*(CNN) — Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for his ...

MIAMI — Goat meat stewing on the stove and sweet potatoes baking in the oven. Cooked fish, complete with bones and eyeballs. Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum. The food is an offering to the ...

(Reuters) - Max Gesner Beauvoir, the "Ati" or supreme leader of voodoo, Haiti's traditional Afro-Caribbean religion, died at the age of 79, his family said. Beauvoir died on Saturday, his family said, ...

Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal ...

Members of the Haitian Armed Forces patrol as people flee homes following the gang violence over the weekend in Port-au-Prince. Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” ...

(CNN) — Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend, after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for his ...