It’s an exhibition that’s one you’ve likely never seen before. The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe is ...

The Santa Muerte tradition. In the Montañez house, the three Santa Muerte devotees gathered near the relic. Of the three, only Dance Alvarez, 46, gave his name. He identified himself as a psychic, ...

La Santa Muerte is an “outsider” to formally established religion, she appeals to other outsiders, especially to those who live beyond society’s safety nets and laws.

Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte — a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their ...

The origin of Santa Muerte is deeply rooted in indigenous Latin American culture, along with Mictlan, the Aztec goddess of the dead and ruler of the underworld. “Mictecacihuatl has a direct line ...

10 bodies found in Acapulco, Mexico, amid cartel violence 04:06. A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult "La Santa Muerte" was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday ...

MEXICO CITY — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday, authorities said. Two other people were killed ...

A leader of Mexican folk saint cult ‘La Santa Muerte’ is killed at an altar to the skeletal figure FILE - A statue of “Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte,” or Our Lady of Holy Death, is displayed for ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday, authorities said.

Santa Muerte has expanded significantly in the last two decades. Andrew Chetnut, an expert in Latin American history and religious studies, estimates that around 12 million people consider themselves ...

Michelle Angelica Pineda, alias “La Chely,” is accused in gang-related mutilation killings were hearts were removed and offered to La Santa Muerte in Juárez, Mexico.