Haitian journalist Gary Tesse was murdered in October 2022. The man allegedly responsible is former Les Cayes prosecutor ...

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Representation of non-Abrahamic religions and spiritual traditions, particularly in the mainstream comics universe, is minimal. Even when they are portrayed in comics, their presentation, as Singh and ...

A woman reacts to being ‘possessed by a spirit’ in a voodoo ceremony, performed during the early hours of May 9, 2025 in Montagne Noir, Haiti.

Historian Kate Ramsey writes in her 2011 book, “ The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti,” that while U.S. Marines were occupying Haiti from 1915 to 1934, they persecuted and ...

Ancient Traditions Voodoo, meaning "spirit," may be one of the world's oldest ancestral, nature-honoring traditions, according to Mamaissii Vivian Dansi Hounon, a member of OATH, the Organization ...

Neither superstitious nor a practioner of voodoo, Lehmann has been in Haiti since 1957 and has made it her mission to "protect this sacred art". "I can't stop accommodating these objects because they ...

For decades voodoo has been portrayed in Western films as a black magic cult, but it was officially recognized as a religion by Haiti’s government in 2003 under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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, gang violence and ...