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What Vodou Really Is: Haiti’s Spiritual Heritage
Often misunderstood and misrepresented, Vodou is a complex, deeply spiritual religion rooted in West African traditions and shaped by the Haitian experience of slavery, resistance, and resilience. BBC ...
Slave risings across the Caribbean, argues Sudhir Hazareesingh’s new book, drew less on Enlightenment ideas than African spirit lore By Ian Thomson The Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ...
A colorful group of about 200 Vodou followers gathered Thursday in Port-au-Prince for a “march for peace,” but authorities blocked their march through the streets of the Haitian capital, citing ...
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Haitians mark their annual Vodou-Christian pilgrimage avoiding the sacred waterfall taken by gangs
Several thousand people scaled a steep hill in a rural part of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday to honor Erzulie and the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. The small church replaced Saut-d’Eau ...
Even with his death, Assotto Saint wanted to provoke. While dying of AIDS in the early ’90s, Saint made detailed plans for his funeral: lining up speakers, dictating which of his poems he wanted read ...
New Orleans is set to commemorate National Vodou Day with a series of events highlighting the spiritual, cultural and historical significance of Vodou. The celebration begins on April 4 featuring ...
The second annual New Orleans National Vodou Day is a cross-continental summit of spiritual practitioners bolstered by a new partnership with Xavier University. Inspired by a similar event in Benin, ...
Watch an audio slideshow of Erol Josue leading a Little Haiti Vodou ceremony. Chantal Louis is a 42-year-old Haitian immigrant who lives in suburban Hempstead on Long Island. She’s a mother of three ...
Haiti's gangs have crossed a "red line", after allegedly killing at least 184 people they suspected of witchcraft. Gang leader Micanor Altès is said to have ordered the knife-and-machete "massacre" in ...
Nearly 200 people have been killed in Haiti over claims of “witchcraft”. The killing spree in the capital’s coastal Cite Soleil over the weekend is believed to have been ordered by a gang leader who ...
Over 180 people were massacred in Cité Soleil, Haiti, over the weekend, according to the UN. A gang leader allegedly ordered the killings as revenge for his son's death, which he believed was caused ...
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