Terra.com

http://en.terra.com/latin-in-america/pictures/cubans_honor_saints_with_santeria_animal_sacrifices/80281

BBC News

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNH7g1L4rqeWglQ4oyd7ruZCHWR4yw&url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15391861

Author: Paul Cox

Source: BushwickBK

bushwickbk.com/2011/01/04/botanicas-laboratories-of-faith/#

Brooklyn has long been called the City of Churches, but houses of faith can come in unexpected guises here. The lines between commercial and religious space, folk practice and church doctrine are seldom less clear than in Bushwick’s many botánicas, dealers in ritual goods and services and laboratories of religious syncretism.

Author: Jenny Barchfield

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010303782.html

Cuba's Santeria priests say 2011 will be a year of change and "reorganization," characterized by growing economic openness and threats of war and coups d'etat.

Their annual New Year's forecast, released Monday by a panel of Afro-Cuban priests, coincides this year with the...

Author: Laura Isensee

Source: The Miami Herald

https://miamiherald....

Author: Meredith Deliso

Source: The New York Post

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/do_you_vodou_show_offers_insight_1PtboOIr7PJlvmTZQ79uoM#ixzz17zWq0wBG

Do you Vodou?

Stephanie Keith does. The Clinton Hill resident has spent nearly five years capturing Brooklyn’s Vodou community — specifically, photographing the religious ceremonies and practices hosted by...

Author: Dena Potter

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/17/AR2010111704020.html

Many Rastafarians and other inmates in Virginia who have spent years in isolation for refusing to cut their hair were moved to a prison where they can live together, the state Corrections Department said Wednesday.

The Associated Press reported in June that 48 inmates were being...

Author: Julienne Gage

Source: Discovery News

news.discovery.com/human/santeria-trance-spirituality-brain.html

Tis the season of the dead: from Halloween to All Saint's Day, when traditionally Christian societies venerate those who have passed on. But for practitioners of the Afro-Cuban philosophy of Santería, the line between the dead and living knows no season; it's almost always a shadowy one.

Afro-Cuban emigre Philbert Armenteros, founder of the...

Author: Nick Miroff

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130108154&sc=17&f=1001

When Cuban President Raul Castro met with the country's Catholic Church leaders this summer and agreed to free dozens of political prisoners, it was a major boost to an institution facing increased competition for Cuban worshippers.

The island has undergone a spiritual revival since the communist...

Author: Ingrid Peritz

Source: The Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/haitian-diaspora-spreading-the-gospel-of-...

Author: Tony Gonzalez

Source: The News Virginian

http://www2.newsvirginian.com/news/2010/sep/21/dreadlocked-employee-claims-workplace-discriminati-ar-517768/

A Waynesboro-area man charges in a federal lawsuit that moving and storage company officials who chose not to hire him discriminated against him because of his Rastafarian religious practice of declining to cut his hair.

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Author: Tony Gonzalez

Source: The News Virginian

http://www2.newsvirginian.com/news/2010/sep/21/dreadlocked-employee-claims-workplace-discriminati-ar-517768/

A Waynesboro-area man charges in a federal lawsuit that moving and storage company officials who chose not to hire him discriminated against him because of his Rastafarian religious practice of declining to cut his hair.

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Author: Adam Nossiter

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/world/africa/14benin.html?ref=religion_and_belief

This is not about secretive mutterings in the dead of night or freakish eccentrics, explained Dah Aligbonon Akpochihala, an eminent voodoo priest who has taken to the airwaves to preach the old messages of faith, fidelity and obedience integral to his religion. It is about bringing a...

Author: Adam Nossiter

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/world/africa/14benin.html?ref=religion_and_belief

This is not about secretive mutterings in the dead of night or freakish eccentrics, explained Dah Aligbonon Akpochihala, an eminent voodoo priest who has taken to the airwaves to preach the old messages of faith, fidelity and obedience integral to his religion. It is about bringing a...

Author: Mari A. Schaefer

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100731_Fired_guards_sue_Delco_prison_over_grooming_rules.html

Three former prison guards have sued the Delaware County prison, alleging religious, sexual, and racial discrimination after they were fired for not cutting their hair, which they say their religion forbids.

Nigel LeBlanc, Eugene Briggs...