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's ...

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 on ...

A Santeria priest has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl during what he claimed were healing rituals, Montebello police said Thursday. Police are trying to find Pablo Pinto Mata, 46 — known as ...

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

Police are investigating after the remains from a grave at a Hartford cemetery were discovered missing Wednesday by a groundskeeper, possibly for a voodoo or Santeria ritual, police said. Few details ...

Pigeons are much more than dirty park pests to Maria Morales. She’s cashing in on them as part of her retirement plan. But Morales and her husband, Alberto, suffered a financial setback over the ...

BURBANK – The crucifix adorning the gate and a life-size figure of a Buddha on the porch suggest the home is religious. But you won’t recognize the faith until you go inside and find Charles Guelperin ...

Santeria religion focuses on building relationships between human beings and powerful, but mortal, spirits, called Orishas. The religion focuses on building relationships between human beings and ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The man says he is possessed by a god. He shouts, his body trembles and he lifts a sacrificed lamb to his lips, drinking its blood from the jugular. This initiation ceremony, ...

Mason, Michael Atwood. 2002. Living Santería: Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion. Smithsonian Institution Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.8.1 ...

Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro spent thousands of dollars of state funds on Santería rituals carried out in Cuba, said the former director of the South American country’s military intelligence, Hugo ...