She traveled to Haiti and underwent the week-long initiation that made her an official mambo, or voodoo priestess. Glassman says she’s honor bound not to reveal the details of the arduous ...

Today, a growing number of houngans and mambos _ Haitian voodoo priests and priestesses _ are advising their followers to adopt a modern ritual that Catholic clergymen are prohibited from ...

Although he had not been particularly spiritual as a young man, Beauvoir became the public face of voodoo and its most prominent promoter, even before he was chosen as chief priest. “Haiti has a ...

The head of Haiti's voodoo religion appealed to authorities Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean country's deadly cholera epidemic.

Max Beauvoir, Haiti's "supreme master" of voodoo ... At the weekend hundreds of voodoo houngans, or priests, gathered in the northern town of Gonaives to plan how to react to the earthquake ...

And the planned midnight invasion of Haiti in 1994 might very well have gone ahead were it not for a voodoo priest named Max Beauvoir, known as the Houngan to the Stars. At the time of his death ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti‘s voodoo priests are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake — and have taken their ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean religion to concoct a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus and to prepare the sacred initiation ...

The disaster has moved voodoo centre-stage in Haiti. Yesterday, 1,000 members of the national convention of voodoo priests met in an emergency session to formulate their response to it.

The peasants of rural Haiti believe that their voodoo priests, or bokors, possess the power to raise the dead from their graves and sell them as slaves. To prevent such a fate, grieving families ...

Women are getting sick.” A police source who works with the Haitian community said cops are aware of the so-called voodoo priests and the women who consult them. The women rarely contact police.

Max Beauvoir, Haiti's "supreme master" of voodoo ... At the weekend hundreds of voodoo houngans, or priests, gathered in the northern town of Gonaives to plan how to react to the earthquake ...