Nearly 200 people have been killed in Haiti over claims of “witchcraft”. The killing spree in the capital’s coastal Cite ...

In western Africa, different communities practice the religion of Voodoo, a belief system based on the idea that their ...

A gang leader in a suburb of Haiti’s capital had a son who was sick. The man believed voodoo curses were being placed on the ...

The United Nations reports a brutal 'manhunt,' with victims taken from their homes in Port-au-Prince to be executed. The ...

A massacre of more than 200 people in Haiti this month followed a gang-ordered manhunt that saw victims, many of them elderly ...

Voodoo, which has West African roots and has existed among Afro-Haitian communities since the late 18th century, is officially recognized as a religion on par with others worshipped in the country.

Voodoo was brought to Haiti by African slaves and is a mainstay of the country’s culture. It was banned during French colonial rule and only recognized as an official religion by the Haitian ...