The search for an Houngan, or traditional voodoo priest, began with a drive through Cite Soleil, the notorious slum on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. My driver told me that Houngans do not live in ...

GRESSIER, Haiti — In a dark, airless temple decorated with paper flags and moldering food, voodoo houngan Adnor Adely takes on the look of one possessed. His eyes shut tight. His shoulders hunch. His ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Vodou in Haiti is not a religion and is not experienced in churches, nor ...

A Sorbonne-trained chemical engineer, Max Beauvoir followed his grandfather’s dying wish to become a voodoo priest—and was instrumental in helping Haiti avoid invasion by U.S. troops in 1994. Special ...

Port-au-Prince, (EFE).- As Haiti sinks deeper into political instability, widespread violence, and a collapsing healthcare system, many citizens are seeking refuge in Voodoo, a religion deeply rooted ...

It was billed as a historic first. Hundreds gathered for a weekend of drinking, speeches, planning and dancing to African drums in a tiny village of grass-roofed mud huts on the edge of Gonaives.

Max Beauvoir, who has died aged 79, was a Sorbonne-educated biochemical engineer who, in 2008, became Haiti’s voodoo “Pope” or “Ati” . Voodoo was introduced to the Americas by West Africans brought to ...

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 chambers ...