http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:33:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 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/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 0 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 0 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 0 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 0 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 0