Author: Manya Brachear

Source: San Jose Mercury News/The Chicago Tribune

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/02/06/family-helps-adopted-haitian-...

Author: Dana Chivvis

Source: AOL News

http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/after-earthquake-haitians-in-the-us-turn-to-religion-for-answers/19328395

Since last week's earthquake, the Rev. Donelson Thevenin, a priest at the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, where many of New York's Haitians live, has been helping his congregation deal with the tragedy. He has prayed with them,...

Author: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122770590

Erol Josue lost more than two dozen friends and extended family in Haiti's devastating earthquake. The Voodoo priest, who lives in New York, says he has spent the past week saying traditional Voodoo prayers.

"We thank God that we are still alive," he says, "but we also pray to give a good route, to give a good path for the...

Author: Manuel Roig-Franzia

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/16/AR2010011603140.html

At night, voices rise in the street. Sweet, joyful, musical voices in lyric Creole. A symphony of hope in a landscape of despair.

"It doesn't mean anything if Satan hates me, because God loves me," sing the women at Jeremy Square, their faces almost invisible in the...

Author: Kirk Semple

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/nyregion/04botanica.html

Cecilia Oliver was having a problem with her lover and needed some help. “He’s being resistant,” she explained. “I want where he’s submissive to me at all times.”

She had come to the Original Products Company, a Bronx emporium where she had heard she could buy the ingredients for a magic...

Author: Frank Green

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/HAIR07_20091206-223208/310004/

Bill Clinton was president when a handful of Virginia prisoners entered segregation cells rather than cut their hair. The inmates, Rastafarians, complain the Department of Corrections' grooming policy of Dec. 15, 1999, violates their religion. Followers of the Rastafari...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Google News

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWoGCd0hYk_hoCD99lSsl2q_zkkQD9C1N2D80

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston's Logan International Airport were violated when he was threatened with firing unless he cut his hair.

An administrative...

Author: Kimberly Thorpe

Source: Dallas Observer

http://www.dallasobserver.com/slideshow/view/28662447

Though Santeria is an Afro-Cuban religion practiced by one to five million people in the US, some Euless residents were shocked to learn it was being practiced in their neighborhood -- especially its animal sacrifices. A long legal battle ensued, which brought new details of the religion to light. 

Author: Kimberly Thorpe

Source: Dallas Observer

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2009-10-22/news/a-court-case-forced-a-santeria-priest-to-reveal-some-of-his-religion-s-secrets-it-s-ritual-of-animal-sacrifice-he-revealed-on-his-own/1

The Euless neighborhood is mostly quiet, a sleepy suburb of pleasant ranch-style homes,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Syracuse.com

Wire Service: AP

Author: Linda Stewart Ball

Source: The Miami Herald

Wire Service: AP

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1166702.html

A federal appeals court reversed a lower court's ruling on Friday that barred a Santeria priest from sacrificing goats in his Texas home, saying a city's decision to prohibit the ritual violated the man's religious rights.

Jose Merced, 46, accuses the city of Euless, Texas...

Author: Diane Jennings

Source: The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/DN-santeria_10met.ART.State.Edition1.4bd9280.html

Euless plans to ask the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the appeal of a man who the court said could sacrifice animals at his home.

The court's decision last week allowing animal sacrifice in Euless as...

Author: Elizabeth Banicki

Source: Courthouse News Service

http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/07/15/Santerian_Says_School_Discriminated.htm

A charter school in San Marcos discriminated against its registrar because of her Santeria religion, the woman claims in Superior Court. She claims a school director refused to rein in the harassment, which increased after she took time off to go to a Santeria event in Miami.
...

Author: Adelle M. Banks

Source: Religion News Service

https://religionnews.com/2009/07/14/sotomayor-has-mixed-record-on-church-state-disputes/

As a federal judge, Sonia Sotomayor sided...

Author: Fadia Galindo

Original Source: CNSNews.com

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49870

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, told the State of New York in 1994 that it must allow prison...