The Daily Reporter/AP

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/840eb37c1eb84351b19fcb7eab8e8939/REL--Religion-Today/

Florida Today

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20111210/NEWS01/312100020/Ritual-religion-Sacrifice-grave-shocks-family

The San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/12/10/international/i000401S62.DTL

The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/decembers-photos-of-faith/2011/12/07/gIQALt19eO_gallery.html

Terra.com

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

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?storyid=%7B433fd99e-6107-479a-a661-912ff6c49440%7D

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

http://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...

Author: Jenny Barchfield

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.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...

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: Laura Isensee

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/13/1971382/hialeah-churches-set-to-honor.html

Kneeling on a purple vinyl cushion, 22-year-old Vicky Valdez lit a candle and bowed her head in silent prayer before an image of San Lázaro, one of her beloved saints.

The statue of an old, sick man — robed in purple, leaning on crutches and flanked by two dogs —...

Author: Dena Potter

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.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.

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Author: Julienne Gage

Source: Discovery News

http://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.