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Saturday August 1, 2009
Santeria:
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court’s ruling, paving the way for a Santeria priest in Euless to resume goat sacrifices as part of religious ceremonies. Euless’ attorney, William “Mick” McKamie, said he plans to file a motion for a rehearing. City officials have said animal sacrifices jeopardize public health and violate Euless’ slaughterhouse and animal-cruelty ordinances.
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Friday April 3, 2009
Santeria:
A Santeria priest who sued a Texas city for denying him permission to sacrifice a goat as part of a religious ceremony asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to let him resume the ritual in his home. “In 1993 the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found unconstitutional a city ban on killing ‘an animal in a public or private ritual or ceremony not for the primary purpose of food consumption.’ We are pretty sure the Constitution still applies in Texas,” says Eric Rassbach, of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. [video]
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Saturday September 27, 2008
Santeria • Voodoo:
Michelle Wood said she was attacked by members of a voodoo group when she refused to participate in drug use and devil worship in a ceremony related to the autumnal equinox.
But cult experts said Wood’s story didn’t line up with known voodoo practices.
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Thursday September 25, 2008
Cults • Santeria • Voodoo:
The account of a woman recovering from critical injuries she said were inflicted by members of an occult group may be difficult to unravel because it doesn’t match the typical methods used by such groups, an expert in cult activities said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, police investigators released little new information about the case but cult experts and police documents raise some questions about the woman’s account.
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Wednesday September 24, 2008
Santeria • Voodoo:
A woman found beaten and lying on the side of U.S. 1 in St. Johns County told deputies she ended up that way after a voodoo ceremony in Flagler County related to the autumnal equinox.
Michelle Rene Wood, 42, of Palm Coast was found covered in blood with both eyes swollen shut early Monday, according to a St. Johns County sheriff’s report. A rope was tied around her right wrist and a bungee cord around her left ankle, the report states.
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Tuesday May 27, 2008
Santeria:
A nationally recognized Santeria priest has engaged an attorney in his battle with Coral Gables, Florida, after police there interrupted a ceremony with animal sacrifices at a home last summer.
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Wednesday April 9, 2008
Santeria:
“The issue of Santeria and animal sacrifice has already been decided by the United States Supreme Court. I’m pretty sure the Constitution of the United States still applies in Euless, Texas.”
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Tuesday March 11, 2008
Santeria:
At the end of the one-day trial, U.S. District Judge John McBryde said Euless was protecting the public’s health by banning animal slaughtering in the city limits but that Merced could do the rituals elsewhere.
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Friday February 8, 2008
Santeria:
The surge in Santeria, which is practiced by many in Cuba, can partly be explained by the arrival of thousands of Cuban doctors in Venezuela.
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Tuesday January 22, 2008
Santeria:
Jose Merced filed the federal discrimination lawsuit in December 2006 after city officials told him he couldn’t kill goats for a ceremony.
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Friday August 17, 2007
Santeria:
Noriel Batista has had little peace since a swarm of Coral Gables police officers burst onto his property, disrupting a Santeria ritual intended to initiate him into a special order of his religion’s priesthood
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Wednesday August 8, 2007
Santeria:
A public school principal accused of paying a woman to sprinkle chicken blood on the high school in an attempt to cleanse it of negative energy will be fired, the Department of Education said Tuesday.
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Tuesday June 26, 2007
Santeria:
Santeria finds a following among baseball’s Latin American players, who’d rather not discuss it for fear of misperceptions.
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Thursday March 22, 2007
Santeria:
A Santeria priest who is suing Euless over his religious practice of animal sacrifice would be allowed to kill chickens and hold small weekly gatherings at his home under a settlement offered by city attorneys.
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Monday February 5, 2007
Santeria:
The city of Euless has asked a federal judge to dismiss a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by a Santeria priest who wants to sacrifice animals at his home.
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Tuesday January 9, 2007
Santeria:
The officers explained to the priest, Jose Merced, that killing animals of any kind is illegal within the city limits. And Mr. Merced tried unsuccessfully to explain that animal sacrifice is as essential to his religion, Santeria, as the Eucharist is to Catholicism.
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Sunday January 22, 2006
Santeria:
More than a dozen carcasses are discovered in a residential neighborhood, sparking a sheriff's investigation into a possible case of animal cruelty.
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Monday November 7, 2005
Santeria:
Faith that fuses African rites, Catholicism gains in popularity
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Sunday August 14, 2005
Santeria:
Santeria high priest aims to bring faith out of isolation
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Saturday November 6, 2004
Santeria:
Once-secretive Santeria faith brings its healing message into the open
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Friday May 28, 2004
Santeria:
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO -- Authorities Tuesday seized more than 100 animals being kept at a South San Francisco home for use as sacrifices by practitioners of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria.
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Thursday April 8, 2004
Santeria:
Police receive their first call about ritual animal sacrifices as neighbors become aware that Santeria is being practiced in their town.
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Monday March 15, 2004
Santeria:
Dressed in a loose white gauze shirt, white pants and white hat, the red-bearded drummer Babaila taps out the same beat he has played for 35 years. Babaila leads a quintet, and coaxes African folk rhythms from his conga as 40 to 50 sweaty believers dance their entreaties to a succession of Santeria deities.
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Tuesday November 18, 2003
Santeria:
NEWARK, N.J. -- A 67-year-old woman has been charged with making terroristic threats against a Santeria priest who performed a highly publicized animal sacrifice in Passaic last month, after she vowed to make a "human sacrifice" of the priest himself, police said.
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Friday September 12, 2003
Santeria:
Lopez puts marriage on hold after visit to her 'mystic adviser'
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