Santeria rituals allow human beings to stay in contact with the Orishas. They include dancing, drumming, speaking and eating with the spirits.

Their loss – nearly $20,000. The Moraleses have been breeding pigeons and selling them mostly to people who use the birds in Santeria religious rituals.

HAVANA — Santeria is not a religion organized around a central authority but a loose collection of practioners who bring a highly individual style to their consultation of the orishas, or sai… ...

It is near impossible for the Department of Education to fire a teacher easily, but when it comes to a principal allegedly using chicken blood in a Santeria ritual to cleanse her high school, that ...

MILFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut man charged with stealing five bodies, including one interred 71 years ago, from a Massachusetts cemetery to use in Santeria rituals was extradited to Massachusetts ...

A Santeria priest has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl during what he claimed were healing rituals, Montebello police said Thursday.

Five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria "power" ritual, police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca said Wednesday. Iván García Alvarez, the Oaxaca state police ...

Rituals include musical rhythms, food offerings and animal sacrifice. — SAINTS: The act of praying to saints was adopted from Catholicism, but the saints have underlying Santeria orishas.

Police are searching for a Santeria priest who allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl while conducting 'healing rituals' at his business in Montebello in 2013.

Four men and a woman, one as young as 18, are dead after drinking a poisoned potion in a Santeria ritual designed to “acquire powers.” ...

Is Santeria witchcraft? Discover the origins, rituals, and cultural significance of Santeria, and why it's often misunderstood as witchcraft.

Five people were found dead in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state after consuming a lethal combination of unspecified substances, police said Wednesday.