http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25585/rival-santa-muerte-church-claims-captured-bishop-does-not-represent-the-mexican-death-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25585/rival-santa-muerte-church-claims-captured-bishop-does-not-represent-the-mexican-death-cult#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:30:58 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25585 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25585/rival-santa-muerte-church-claims-captured-bishop-does-not-represent-the-mexican-death-cult/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25553/mexico-arrests-leader-of-santa-muerte-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25553/mexico-arrests-leader-of-santa-muerte-cult#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:49:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25553 David Romo, considered the high priest of a cult with millions of followers across the Americas, is accused of kidnapping and posing as a member of the feared Zetas drug cartel.

The "Santa Muerte" cult has become popular among drug traffickers in Mexico, in part because followers believe the skeletal figure of the female "saint" may protect them from death or arrest.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25553/mexico-arrests-leader-of-santa-muerte-cult/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23950/mexican-santa-muerte-sect-linked-to-narcotics-trafficking http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23950/mexican-santa-muerte-sect-linked-to-narcotics-trafficking#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:27:55 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23950 Santa Muerte is not a Catholic saint, and in recent decades her popularity in Mexico, especially among the poor and criminal classes, has led to clashes with church officials and government authorities.

But in and around Los Angeles, where Santa Muerte services are held in at least three storefront shrines, a dash of pop theology and Southern California sunshine seems to have given the movement a mild New Age flavor.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23950/mexican-santa-muerte-sect-linked-to-narcotics-trafficking/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23368/santa-muerte-saint-death http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23368/santa-muerte-saint-death#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:14:41 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23368 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. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23368/santa-muerte-saint-death/feed 0 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 0 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 0 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 0 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 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9024/catholic-church-upset-by-mexicos-st-death http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9024/catholic-church-upset-by-mexicos-st-death#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:37:57 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=9024 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9024/catholic-church-upset-by-mexicos-st-death/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7106/gangsters-pray-to-our-lady-of-death http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7106/gangsters-pray-to-our-lady-of-death#comments Wed, 05 May 2004 04:02:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=7106 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7106/gangsters-pray-to-our-lady-of-death/feed 0