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 ...

Max Gesner Beauvoir, the supreme chief of the voodoo religion, died at the age of 79 in the Haitian capital, his relatives announced. Beauvoir, a biochemist by training, was named in 2008 the ...

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 ...

* They say their religion is a force for good, not evil * Majority of Haiti's people believed to practice voodoo By Pascal Fletcher PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 28 (Reuters) - Dressed in white, shaking ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel shortages ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Protestants say the voodoo spirit does not embody good virtues, while Catholicism, which ...

At least 40 migrants have died after a boat they were traveling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a UN agency said Friday, with police saying the explosion was sparked by a voodoo ritual ...

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 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel ...

Migration from Haiti has spiked in recent months, as people flee a worsening crisis that has seen criminal gangs take control of swaths of territory - Copyright AFP ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. (THE CONVERSATION) For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, ...