http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:17:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22249 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22249/santa-muerte-4/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21567/santa-muerte-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21567/santa-muerte-3#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:58:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21567 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21567/santa-muerte-3/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21566/santa-muerte-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21566/santa-muerte-2#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:51:20 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21566
Although the Santa Muerte icon has existed for decades in working-class Mexican neighborhoods, never has it towered so ominously.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21566/santa-muerte-2/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19000/santa-muerte http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19000/santa-muerte#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:01:31 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19000/santa-muerte http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19000/santa-muerte/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13422/serial-killer-a-death-cultist http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13422/serial-killer-a-death-cultist#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13422/serial-killer-a-death-cultist/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12244/la-santa-muerte-holy-death http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12244/la-santa-muerte-holy-death#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12244/la-santa-muerte-holy-death/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11205/teachers-bikers-sect-members-throng-capital http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11205/teachers-bikers-sect-members-throng-capital#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11205/teachers-bikers-sect-members-throng-capital/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11093/mexican-government-pulls-official-recognition-for-death-worshipping-church http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11093/mexican-government-pulls-official-recognition-for-death-worshipping-church#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11093/mexican-government-pulls-official-recognition-for-death-worshipping-church/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10459/death-worshippers-march-for-faith http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10459/death-worshippers-march-for-faith#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=10459 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10459/death-worshippers-march-for-faith/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10335/mexico-weighs-recognition-of-saint-death-sect http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10335/mexico-weighs-recognition-of-saint-death-sect#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=10335 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10335/mexico-weighs-recognition-of-saint-death-sect/feed