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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Santeria</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Investigators close case after experts doubt woman&#8217;s voodoo abduction story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22544/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/voodoo.jpg" alt="voodo" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="voodoo"></a> 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.
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But <a href="http://www.cultexperts.org">cult experts</a> <a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22522/cult-experts-question-womans-voodoo-account">said</a> Wood's story didn't line up with known voodoo practices. ]]></description>
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		<title>Cult experts question woman&#8217;s voodoo account</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22522/cult-experts-question-womans-voodoo-account</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Santeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22522/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/voodoo.jpg" alt="voodoo" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="voodoo"></a> The <a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22499/voodoo-santeria">account</a> 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 <a href="http://www.cultfaq.org">cult</a> activities said Wednesday.</strong>
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Meanwhile, police investigators released little new information about the case but <a href="http://www.cultexperts.org">cult experts</a> and police documents raise some questions about the woman's account. ]]></description>
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		<title>Woman says she was kidnapped and beaten by Santeria voodo group</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22499/voodoo-santeria</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Santeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22499/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/santeria.jpg" alt="Santeria Voodoo" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Santeria Voodoo"></a> 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.</strong>
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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.]]></description>
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		<title>Santeria priest ready for fight with Florida city</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21530/santeria-priest-ready-for-fight-with-florida-city</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Suburban Santeria priest appealing animal slaughter ban</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21106/santeria-8</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["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."]]></description>
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		<title>Priest loses lawsuit challenging animal sacrifice ban</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20859/santeria-7</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>More Venezuelans turning to Santeria for spiritual needs</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20564/santeria-6</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Santeria priest loses battle to sacrifice goats in home</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20401/santeria-5</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jose Merced filed the federal discrimination lawsuit in December 2006 after city officials told him he couldn't kill goats for a ceremony.]]></description>
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		<title>For Santeros, religious freedom is anything but</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19048/santeria-4</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19048/santeria-4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<title>Principal Ousted Over NYC School Ritual</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18963/santeria-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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