Santa Muerte, the skeletal figure dressed in robes and wielding a scythe, is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the Western Hemisphere. Though often linked to drug cartels and criminals ...

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.

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A San Antonio man hired as a detention officer for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office had the job offer pulled days before starting at the academy because of his wife’s devotion to La Santa ...

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 ...

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. Two other people were killed and ...