Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo/Dieu ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Dressed in white, shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to "Olorum Papa" (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of Haiti's voodoo religion held a ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Bearing rum, flowers and candles, thousands of voodoo followers flocked to Haiti's largest cemetery on Wednesday to rouse sacred spirits and remember lost relatives in raucous ...
Introduction -- 1: Cargo for Good Friday -- 2: No way out -- 3: Son of a slave is a slave -- 4: Miasmas -- 5: Garden of spells -- 6: La Science -- 7: Mondesir -- 8: Marvellous horrors -- 9: Vivi -- 10 ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five years after a massive earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and reducing homes to rubble, few survivors would say they were ...
SAUT D'EAU, Haiti -- Wearing red satin scarves and lugging rum and palm-thatch mats on their heads, tens of thousands trekked to sacred waterfalls yesterday in a voodoo pilgrimage to pray for ...
Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend, after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for his child’s ...
For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells. But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South America and ...