Voodoo economics: How wildlife trade for ritual use is wiping out Africa's vultures

For some people, the mention of voodoo evokes something like a scene from the James Bond novel "Live and Let Die," featuring ...
Newsday

Benin's mecca of spirits and gods draws tourists and followers with famed Voodoo festival

OUIDAH, Benin — As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the gods and spirits that are evident all around the arena are ...
WFMY News2

In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred

PORTO-NOVO, Benin — For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get ...
NBC Chicago

Benin's Voodoo believers struggle to protect sacred forests and their perceived spirits

For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were ...
Reuters

Pope visits cathedral in African voodoo city

OUIDAH, Benin (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday visited the city considered the capital of voodoo in West Africa, praying at a Catholic cathedral just across the street from a large voodoo temple ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred

(29 Oct 2023) In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, practitioners of the faith believe the country’s forests are home to the spirits they seek guidance from and pray to. But those woodlands in the West ...
Billings Gazette

In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred

(Oct. 29) PORTO-NOVO, Benin — For many people in West Africa's Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by ...