From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch ...

HAVANA (AP) — A fusion of African religions and Catholicism, Santería was one of the few religious practices to quietly endure through decades of prohibitions and stigma by the communist government.

A California woman lost her job as San Diego State University’s lead custodian last year because of her religion, Santeria, according to a new lawsuit that says she was wrongly fired. The university ...

SAN DIEGO — Claudia Hernandez worked as a custodian at San Diego State University for four years before she was fired last December. She's now suing the university for wrongful termination over her ...

Cuba's Afro-Cuban religious leaders present their 2023 predictions in Havana HAVANA (Reuters) - Priests from Cuba's Afro-Cuban Santeria religion on Tuesday warned that rising homicides and a spike in ...

A priest of Santeria—an Afro-Caribbean religion that requires animal sacrifice—can claim his arrest on animal cruelty charges violates the federal constitution, federal judge has ruled in a case of ...

SAN ANTONIO – A married couple arrested after attending a Santeria ceremony involving animal sacrifice say they aren't cruel people or criminals -- they're just believers of a misunderstood religion.

A history of the Santeria religion's origins in the traditions of enslaved Africans. Santeria was created in Cuba by the mingling of Yoruba traditions brought by enslaved Africans from Nigeria and ...

It's not every day that Baptists, Mormons and the National Association of Evangelicals are bound in common cause with Presbyterians, Lutherans and liberal groups such as Norman Lear's People for the ...

The magic of Southern California strip malls is that though they fall into somewhat predictable archetypes of nail spots, weed stores, and Middle Eastern food joints, ultimately you never know what ...

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