HAVANA — As tensions rise between the United States and Cuba and the island braces for more economic difficulties, priests and priestesses of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santería held several ...

A figurine of Our Lady of Charity atop the church sanctuary inside Ermita de la Caridad during the 2025 celebration of the feast day of Cuba's patroness at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity ...

HAVANA (AP) — The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans. But 65 years later, ...

Part of the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative. "From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1880s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, this book ...

1. The Virgin's Exile: The Cuban Patroness and the Diaspora in Miami -- 2. Santeria, Catholicism, and Evangelization: Struggles for Religious Identity -- 3. Diverse Devotees, Plural Practices, and ...

HAVANA -- As tensions rise between the United States and Cuba and the island braces for more economic difficulties, priests and priestesses of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santeria held several ...