Elder Toni Runnels, an ordained Ifa priestess and holistic therapist for 24 years, leads a traditional ceremony with fellow follwers of Ifa. Roy Inman Special to The Star Your Guide to KC: Star ...

What to know about Haiti’s monthlong celebration of gédé loas, deities that open the gates to ancestral connections, ...

I first heard about Vodou when I was around 7 years old. My mother was sending me to a friend’s house for a playdate, which sparked a few memories of her own playdates past. “I’d look for a broom ...

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 ...

Though Alain Pierre-Louis grew up in a Haitian family that attended Catholic church services most Sundays, he always felt a spiritual pull toward something else. Vodou, a Haitian religion rooted in ...

A Vodou priest on Haiti describes some of the important elements of his faith.

BOSTON - Two separate crimes against children in recent days have one haunting similarity: authorities have pointed to voodoo rituals as a possible motive. But practitioners of Haitian Vodou, which ...

I walk down the narrow basement stairs with ease, but before I can cross the entryway into the warm candlelit temple, the oungan, a male priest in the Haitian Vodou tradition, hands me a ceramic jar ...

Dance is Life: Performers in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince reassert the nation's cultural identity in the face of gang violence. Twenty dancers gathered in a leafy garden in Port-au-Prince on ...

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 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted religion across Haiti, where its believers were ...