Photographer Anthony Karen said he first became fascinated with Haiti after seeing a documentary in 1982 about the United States’ role in eradicating the Creole pig in Haiti. “The Creole pig was a ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown ...
Reza Aslan is the host of the new spiritual adventure series Believer, which tackles the battle between evangelical Christianity and Vodou in Haiti in this Sunday’s episode on CNN 7PT/10ET. After the ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Vodou in Haiti is not a religion and is not experienced in churches, nor ...
Before we go any further, it should be made clear that the name of the Field Museum’s new exhibit is pronounced “voh-DOO.” Also, vodouists don’t make those little cloth dolls to curse their enemies; ...
“What draws me to Vodou is that there’s no division between the body and spirit…there is no boundary between them,” says Reza Aslan of this week’s trip to Haiti on CNN’s Believer with Reza Aslan. In a ...
Haitians across South Florida will honor a native tradition and spirituality as they celebrate the island nation’s annual Fèt ...
A North Carolina man is asking for answers after his mom died while on a Vodou retreat in Haiti. Dana Jackson, 51, wanted to become a Manbo priestess. A Manbo priestess “is a female ritual specialist ...
“Antre Kanzo—Cracking the Petwo Whip.” Vodou Archive. University of Florida Digital Library Center, n.d. Web. 15 May 2014. Arthur, Charles and Michael Dash, ed. “Chapter 8: Popular Religion and ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of revelers clad in white and clutching candles crowded into the main cemetery at Haiti’s capital on Monday to pay their respects to the dead during an annual ...