A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti’s capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son's death.
Some might be surprised to learn that religious work leads to greater personal fulfillment than any other profession. But not Monsignor Stephen Rossetti. “Priestly happiness is one of the grea ...
Though “zombie” came from Vodou (Voodoo) — a Haitian religion in which corpses were supposedly reanimated by magical spells — we can thank the movies for the modern fixation with mindless, destructive ...
However, he noted, it is not necessarily evidence of a claim made by previous scholars, of direct Indigenous influence on the Vodou religion. Carnival celebrations in Haiti have incorporated native ...
Jean said Eugene's Haitian heritage, historically known for its various vodou religious practices in some parts of Haiti, helped fuel some of the false vodou and zombie accusations. But Eugene's ...
Jean said Eugene's Haitian heritage, historically known for its various vodou religious practices in some parts of Haiti, helped fuel some of the false vodou and zombie accusations. But Eugene's ...
19, 2024. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) A group of Sikh pilgrims sing religious songs as they attend their first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev, birth anniversary celebrations at his shrine at the Gurdwara ...
(RNS) — In the 1995 novel that inspired the musical and film, the Wicked Witch of the West is a green-skinned child of a minister exploited for his missionary endeavors. (RNS) — Before ...
While public discussion often highlights declining numbers in religious life, there are equally powerful signs of renewal and growth emerging in communities today. This month, we asked our ...