Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted ...

Louis’s softly menacing effigy of a Haitian deity posed in a flood of daylight at the Gardner Museum. The handful of steps leading up to its perch are dotted with candles, altar-like; the gothic arch ...

No other religion has been so maliciously opposed ... writes Kate Ramsey in «The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti.» The critics wanted to prove that Vodou was responsible for ...

specialising in traditional Haitian Vodou rituals. But she never returned from the trip and her son Timothy Jackson is now desperately seeking answers about what happened to his mother.

Voodoo, or Vodou as it's known in Haiti, is one of the country's official ... including animals and plants – have spirits, and use rituals, prayers and dances to connect with them.