Dancing to the throbbing beat of sacred drums, the congregation circles a man lying face-down on the floor paying thanks to Babalu Aye, a deity in Cuba's Santeria religion. The African-rooted faith ...

BRIDGEPORT — Wielding the threat of dark magic, a suspect arrested in a drug probe kept an East Side neighborhood virtually captive, afraid to complain about him, police said. Felix “Cuba” Delgado, ...

Los Angeles Times sports reporter Kevin Baxter explains the rise of the Afro-Caribbean religion santeria in major league baseball. Latin American athletes are stalwarts in Major League Baseball. Many ...

An old Supreme Court decision about ritual animal sacrifices helped halt President Trump’s travel bans. The three federal appeals judges who refused to reinstate Trump’s executive order last week ...

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Five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria ‘power’ ritual, police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca said Wednesday. Iván García Alvarez, the Oaxaca state police chief, ...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — This was my first brush with Santeria, a religion practiced here in Puerto Rico and throughout the Caribbean. Hopefully it will be my last. It has brought me nothing but ...

Santeria is essentially an African way of worship drawn into a symbiotic relationship with Catholicism. The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Marcea Eliade Santería is an amorphous, practical, and oral ...

Santeria was created in Cuba by the mingling of Yoruba traditions brought by enslaved Africans from Nigeria and Benin with the Roman Catholic faith of the Spanish plantation owners. Attempts were made ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives recovered at least one apparent human skull and possibly others from a Compton store where they were being used for Santeria religious ceremonies, officials ...