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 ...
Curious about La Santa Muerte? Mexico's Death Saint has become very popular in recent years — but do you really know what she ...
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, ...
ALBUQUERQUE — A New Mexico archbishop is renewing his call for Catholics to stop worshipping the skeleton folk saint known as La Santa Muerte, or “Our Lady of Holy Death,” saying he fears some ...
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 ...
The discovery in El Salvador of a shrine to Santa Muerte, a female deity associated with the criminal underworld, has revealed how the new religious movement has become popular among criminal groups ...
(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 Mexican religious subculture surrounding the folk deity Santa Muerte is growing in Queens. Her name translates as “St. Death,” and her followers say she watches over the marginalized and ...
ALBUQUERQUE — A New Mexico archbishop is renewing his call for Catholics to stop worshiping the skeleton folk saint known as La Santa Muerte, or "Our Lady of Holy Death," saying he fears some ...
Texas Folklife will present a screening of the documentary short film, La Santa Muerte: A Folk Saint in Texas. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and Andrew ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A New Mexico archbishop is renewing his call for Catholics to stop worshipping the skeleton folk saint known as La Santa Muerte, or "Our Lady of Holy Death," saying he fears some ...