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Thursday March 26, 2009
Santa Muerte:
Mexico destroys ‘Death Saint’ revered by criminals
Santa Muerte Mexican federal authorities used bulldozers to bring down more than 30 chapels devoted to “Saint Death” – a figure that is worshipped by drug traffickers – in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, the daily Reforma reported Wednesday.

Although the figure is venerated by people from many walks of life, the saint — Santa Muerte — has been adopted by drug gangs.
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Tuesday September 2, 2008
Santa Muerte:
Mexican police suspect that heads burned in ritual
Santa Muerte The heads of 11 decapitated bodies discovered in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula last week may have been burned in a ritual, investigators said.

Police said they found an altar to the skeletal figure of the “Santa Muerte,” an unofficial patron saint of death, in the home of two men arrested in connection with the slayings, while several scorched spots were discovered in a nearby clearing.
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Monday June 2, 2008
Santa Muerte:
Saint Death comes to Chicago
Eduardo Ornelas, a spiritual adviser and owner of the Botanica San Miguel Arcangel, said he tells customers the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize Santa Muerte. Even so, for many in the Mexican community she has emerged as representing a dark, less-traveled path ultimately connected to God.
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Santa Muerte:
In Mexico town, icon of death inspires worship and worry
While a similar shrine to a Catholic saint would likely be a source of pride, many residents are appalled at a 75-foot-tall statue of a skeleton shrouded in black, Santa Muerte (Saint Death).

Although the Santa Muerte icon has existed for decades in working-class Mexican neighborhoods, never has it towered so ominously.
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Monday August 13, 2007
Santa Muerte:
Devotees seek to soften image of Mexico death cult
Followers of Mexico’s Santa Muerte death cult replaced their scythe clutching skeleton idol on Sunday with a pale angel in a gold dress in an attempt to make their beliefs more palatable to Christianity.
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Saturday January 28, 2006
Santa Muerte:
Serial killer a death cultist
A former female wrestler, accused of killing 11 elderly women in the Mexican capital, had an altar to the skeletal, scythe-wielding Santa Muerte death cult figure in her home, newspapers said.
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Tuesday September 20, 2005
Santa Muerte:
La Santa Muerte (Holy Death)
NOGALES, Sonora - Not everyone fears the reaper.
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Monday May 16, 2005
Santa Muerte:
Teachers, bikers, sect members throng capital
Teachers, members of a local religious sect and motorcyclists thronged Mexico City streets on Sunday in three separate protests.
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Saturday April 30, 2005
Santa Muerte:
Mexican Government Pulls Official Recognition for Death-Worshipping Church
MEXICO CITY--Mexico's government canceled the official recognition of a religious group devoted to the worship of the Santa Muerte, or "Saint Death" on Friday, arguing the group had violated its own statutes.
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Saturday March 5, 2005
Santa Muerte:
Death worshippers march for faith
Devotees of a death cult, who are fighting for recognition as a religion, participate in a protest in Mexico City yesterday.
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Friday February 18, 2005
Santa Muerte:
Mexico weighs recognition of Saint Death sect
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Praying to a statue of the Grim Reaper and collecting the faithful across the country, a small religious sect that worships death is now fighting the Mexican government for recognition.
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Tuesday October 19, 2004
Santa Muerte:
Catholic Church upset by Mexico’s St. Death
MEXICO CITY - Deep in the heart of Mexico City's toughest neighborhood, in streets plagued by drugs and prostitution, faithful Catholics are praying to a new and fearsome saint: death itself.
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Tuesday May 4, 2004
Santa Muerte:
Gangsters pray to Our Lady of Death
Gangsters pray to Our Lady of Death for protection on Mexico's meanest streets
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Wednesday March 10, 2004
Santa Muerte:
‘St. Death’ calls to the living in Mexico City
Cult of 'the skinny girl' spreads
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