In the October, 1993 print edition of High Times, Eric Williams writes about the pantheistic Afro-Cuban religious tradition of Santeria. The religion’s future following the ruling is still uncertain.

Cuban followers of the Santeria faith beat sacred drums, sacrificed animals and sang ceremonial songs in the Yoruba tongue Monday to give thanks for the year's blessings and ask for prosperity in 2014 ...

Follower of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria sits before a ceremony amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease outbreak in Havana HAVANA (Reuters) - The family of Emilia Montoya, 79, ...

HAVANA (AP) — From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside ...

The man says he is possessed by a god. He shouts, his body trembles and he lifts a sacrificed lamb to his lips, drinking its blood from the jugular. This initiation ceremony, seldom witnessed by ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - The air was choked with smoke from incense and cigars while the faithful sipped sugarcane liquor from a gourd at the altar and spat mist over the crowd. Niurka Mola 50, stood at the ...

From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch ...

A history of the Santeria religion's origins in the traditions of enslaved Africans. Santeria was created in Cuba by the mingling of Yoruba traditions brought by enslaved Africans from Nigeria and ...

Santeria followers listen as religious leaders, or babalawos, present ‘la letra,’ or letter — a set of predictions and advice guiding worshipers for the new year, at the Ramada Hotel in Hialeah on ...

Carlos Valdes had just finished a misa espiritual, a group communion with the orisha spirits, when rapid-fire pops sounded outside. The celebrated oriate, a high priest in the Santería religion, ...