A few days after a group of armed men kidnapped her 27-year-old son, María set up a shrine to St. Jude Thaddeus at her home in Guadalajara, western Mexico. "I keep photos, candles and holy water at ...
That was the first question following an investigation by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office in February, in which deputies uncovered a house with suspected stolen vehicles used for a human-smuggling ...
In this Feb. 13, 2013 file photo, statues of La Santa Muerte, an underworld saint most recently associated with the violent drug trade in Mexico, are shown at the Masks y Mas art store in Albuquerque, ...
His address to Mexico’s bishops on Feb. 13 included an episcopal scolding of epic proportions, calling bishops back to their pastoral jobs of service, but Pope Francis also included a thinly veiled ...
Santa Muerte (Saint of Death or Our Holy Lady of Death) is a Mexican folk saint whose devotion has seen a significant rise over the past few decades. Known for her skeletal figure and association with ...
Mexican brand Camisetas Pendejas T-Shirt saying “A real man never bad-mouths López Obrador.” (Credit: Morena Party post on Twitter.) Listen SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Mexico’s Episcopal Conference released a ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show “Breaking Bad.” She turns up routinely ...
Sunny Flea Market on Airline Drive is as full of raw life as any place in the state of Texas, especially on this hot Sunday afternoon in August. Fifty thousand weekly visitors stroll its long rows of ...
(Image above of a Santa Muerte altar found in a drug house raided by San Antonio, Texas, police.) In 2010, when I had my Beliefnet blog, I got a letter from a reader who was (and I guess still is) an ...
A growing number of Mexicans are turning to Santa Muerte, instead of to the official patroness, the Virgin of Guadalupe, in a practice that the Catholic Church has publicly condemned as blasphemy. WSJ ...
Every morning before opening her shop to customers, Cristina Perez says “buenos días” to a green-cloaked, three-foot skeleton covered in dollar bills — offerings folded in triangles and taped to the ...
Santa Muerte (Saint of Death or Our Holy Lady of Death) is a Mexican folk saint whose devotion has seen a significant rise over the past few decades. Known for her skeletal figure and association with ...
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