It's unknown who built the gray cinder block structure that houses an elaborate alter to Santa Muerte, or Holy Death, on Camino Real Highway in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. In recent years, US law ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is also a season when people invoke la Santa Muerte - or the Death Saint. ANDREW CHESNUT: She is the saint who never discriminates, because death accepts everybody.

Many attendees donned images of Santa Muerte - in large gold pendants, rings and even tattoos. There are no rules or strict requirements imposed on the followers of what Andrew Chesnut ...

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 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 eight injured in ...

A Leader of Mexican Folk Saint Cult 'La Santa Muerte' Is Killed at an Altar to the Skeletal Figure MEXICO CITY (AP) — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was ...