CONCORD, N.H. (RNS) — At St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Concord, New Hampshire, the Rev. Jean Beniste, a Haitian immigrant and Episcopal priest turned internet curses into blessings during an annual ...

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 ...

The Rev. Jean Beniste, a Haitian immigrant and rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Concord, made light of former president Donald Trump’s hostile rhetoric aimed at immigrants CONCORD, N.H. — As ...

The Rev. Jean Beniste, a Haitian immigrant, feeds a dog during a Blessing of the Animals in the garden at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Concord, N.H., where Beniste serves as rector, Saturday, Oct. 5 ...

Self-help guru and former long-shot Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has come to Donald Trump’s defense over the bizarre and refuted conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants in ...

CONCORD, N.H. (RNS) — As pet lovers gathered in a church garden here Saturday (Oct. 5) with dogs and photographs for the annual Blessing of the Animals, they were greeted with an assurance unlike any ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five years after a massive earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and reducing homes to rubble, few survivors would say they were ...

“I will bless them. I will embrace them. I will embrace you. I will make community with you,” said the Rev. Jean Beniste, a Haitian immigrant and rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Concord, New ...

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 ...

Father Juan Luxama, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, talking with Haitian migrants at San Mateo Church in San Juan while on a Catholic Extension Immersion Trip in February 2024. (Credit: Catholic ...

The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti that has seen gangs take over most of the country includes “an organized campaign against the Church,” with many Catholics suffering from kidnappings, ...

MIAMI (AP) — The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, an influential Haitian Roman Catholic priest who was once jailed in Haiti for his political activities and fought for his countrymen's rights in the U.S., died ...