PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown ...
A Vodou ceremony aboard a boat filled with desperate Haitian migrants seeking a safe landing ended in tragedy after candles and matches used in the ritual set gasoline-filled drums on fire, setting ...
A Haitian Vodou baptism ceremony on Dania Beach. Offerings at a Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, altar in Little Havana. A Muslim man praying inside Miami’s oldest mosque. These rituals in ...
A North Carolina man is asking for answers after his mom died while on a Vodou retreat in Haiti. Dana Jackson, 51, wanted to become a Manbo priestess. A Manbo priestess “is a female ritual specialist ...