Ouidah in Benin hosted thousands of visitors on Friday for the 2025 Voodoo Festival. The annual festival featured traditional ...

In the ancient town of Ouidah, located in southern Benin, the annual Voodoo Festival unfolds with a vibrant mix of dance, ...

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

Voodoo is often shrouded in mystery, or demonized. But at the annual Voodoo festival in Benin, tourists are finding out about ...

Spectators watched a group of women dance wildly, making backflips before succumbing to a trance-like state at the annual Voodoo Festival in Ouidah, Benin Republic. Every January, the Voodoo festival ...

Modeste Zinsou, manager of Benin's Python Temple, gently drapes a live snake around a visitor's neck at the country's annual ...

Voodoo Festival in Ouidah, Benin, offers a vibrant spectacle featuring voodoo rituals, ceremonies, and performances. Practitioners emphasize voodoo's spiritual essence, dispelling misconceptions about ...

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

The Western world has largely gotten rid of God. But instead of abandoning religious fervor altogether, today’s society is teeming with substitute religions. One such ideology is wokeism, an extreme ...

A bizarre incident involving NBA YoungBoy’s brother has sparked a wave of online reactions after reports surfaced that he was arrested while carrying three pythons. On December 29, 2024, reports ...

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.

The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work for free and pay its bills. By Michael Rothfeld and Nicole Hong The ...