Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal ...

* They say their religion is a force for good, not evil * Majority of Haiti's people believed to practice voodoo By Pascal Fletcher PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 28 (Reuters) - Dressed in white, shaking ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Protestants say the voodoo spirit does not embody good virtues, while Catholicism, which ...

Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners, with the government on Monday condemning a massacre of "unbearable cruelty." The ...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Dressed in white, shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to "Olorum Papa" (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of Haiti's voodoo religion held a ...

Protestants say the voodoo spirit does not embody good virtues, while Catholicism, which has been the official religion of Haiti since 1860, has over the years evolved to tolerate some cultural ...