Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ouidah in Benin hosted thousands of visitors on Friday for the 2025 Voodoo Festival. The annual festival featured traditional ...

Welcome to the ancient town of Ouidah, in southern Benin, a mecca of gods and spirits where the celebration of the annual Voodoo festival brings a mix of tourism and religion in a clash of cultures ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Dressed in white, shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to "Olorum Papa" (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of Haiti's voodoo religion held a ...

For the past three years, the government of Benin has organised an international festival around the 10 January, a date dedicated to the traditional Vodun or Voodoo religion. On this occasion, ...

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OUIDAH, Benin - In a basilica built in the heartland of Africa's voodoo religion, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday unveiled a treatise outlining the role of the Roman Catholic Church on the continent, ...

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NMAF copy 39088019239706 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. "The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi ...