The Haitian state created specific laws to burn what they called superstitious practices which they associated with the voodoo religion. Protestant churches and evangelical pastors also practiced ...

it's really where -- Haiti is where voodoo comes from in the Western hemisphere. So it's brought from a lot of much more ancient tribal African practices that were brought along. You know ...

According to the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook, there is a fusion of beliefs in Haiti – 80 percent of people profess to be Catholic, and another 16 percent are Protestant yet roughly half ...

Voodoo, or Vodou as it's known ... showing a woman of apparently Haitian origin describing animal sacrifice as common Vodou practice – a claim that has been widely debunked.

According to Dorcé, Voodoo traces back to the seventeenth century, when slave ships from Western Sub-Saharan Africa came to Haiti. Voodooism is a blend of various religious practices including the ...

“What people think of as voodoo practice now is superficial. They could never understand the deeper emotional transformation those people in Haiti went through, to put together a perfect plan ...

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.

Western and African cultures collide in Haiti resulting in religious conflict between Christianity and Voodoo Despite centuries of vigilant opposition from the Christian Church Voodoo has ...