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 ...

Voodoo, a blend of Christian tenets and African religions, was sanctioned as an official religion in Haiti in 2003.

As early as the 19th century, Voodoo had already become a dominant belief system even influencing elite culture – even if secretly. Haitian elites could not openly support the religion.

Today, a growing number of houngans and mambos _ Haitian voodoo priests and priestesses _ are advising their followers to adopt a modern ritual that Catholic clergymen are prohibited from ...

Haiti's voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean religion to concoct a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus and to prepare the sacred initiation chambers of their temples to ...

According to Haitian tradition, African slaves met at a plantation called Cayman at night to plan their liberation in August 1791 where a voodoo cultural ritual was conducted.

Voodoo was part of the culture of the African that were enslaved and taken to Haiti in the 1600s and 1700s.

Welles moved the location of the play to Haiti and changed the Scottish witchcraft of the original Macbeth, to Haitian voodoo rituals. The result was praised by critics and the community.

At least 40 migrants have died after a boat they were traveling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a UN agency said Friday, with police ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – 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 ...