A Vatican announcement on Feb. 25 that Blessed José Gregório Hernández will be canonized was received in South America – ...

Santa Muerte, the skeletal figure dressed in robes and wielding a scythe, is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the Western Hemisphere. Though often linked to drug cartels and criminals ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the ...

More than a year after an investigation disputed the singer's claims of being Cree, she is losing the Canadian recognitions she has received.

People take part in a theatrical procession with a puppet of St. Casimir, the patron saint of Lithuania, during the ...