Santa Muerte (Saint of Death or Our Holy Lady of Death) is a Mexican folk saint whose devotion has seen a significant rise ...

like a mythical bandit from northern Mexico called Jesús Malverde. There are even saints from the New Testament repurposed for achieving not salvation but success. In this expanding spiritual ...

The ceremony takes place at a modest temple to Santa Muerte, the Mexican folk saint of death, in a rundown area of Guadalajara, the nation's second biggest city. Despite a reputation as a death ...

Thousands of Mexican parishioners took their pets to church on Friday to receive a blessing on the feast day of St. Anthony the Abbot, patron saint of animals, so that they would have “divine ...