The festival gained popularity over the years from within and outside Africa, organizers say, and attracts thousands of ...

Learn more about SLCC student Jevahjire “Jevah” France and what life was like in his hometown of Les Cayes, Haiti.

Clad in white and pink, Deborah Bossou, 25, blends vibrant song with dance as she immerses herself with fellow practitioners ...

The Representations of Voodoo in Popular Culture and Fiction (FRAN 325) is coming to the University of Victoria this 2025 ...

Among Haitian writers, artists and intellectuals, Vodou is considered a revolutionary religion. Though the masters used to force their enslaved people to be baptised as Christians, the old religion ...

In 2024, the Directorate General of Migration (DGM) returned to their country of origin 276,215 Haitians (deportation and repatriation), who were in an irregular migratory situation in the ...

(CNN) — The Dominican Republic deported more than 276,000 Haitians in 2024, the country’s Immigration Directorate said Wednesday. In the last three months of the year alone, over 94,000 people ...

Voodoo, practiced in Haiti since the late 18th Century, is now recognized as a religion on a par with other faiths in the country. That means voodoo ceremonies have equal standing with Christian ones.

In their hands are loaded guns, and the boys know how to use them. One aims his pistol at the Haitian police officers engaging them in a firefight a few hundred yards away. The children are ...

On December 25, armed men opened fire on journalists and police gathered for the reopening of Haiti’s largest hospital, killing at least three, including two reporters. The attack, attributed to the ...