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 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of revelers clad in white and clutching candles crowded into the main cemetery at Haiti’s capital on Monday to pay their respects to the dead during an annual ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — 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 ...

The twin-engine wooden cargo boat crammed with 356 Haitians was churning toward Florida, battling six-foot waves on the open seas when Wilfrid, a 60-year-old former sailor who got a free seat because ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your Guide to KC: Star culture and identity writer J.M. Banks is acting as a tour guide of sorts to some well-known and hidden ...