The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their ...
Haitians are now praying more and visiting Vodou priests, or "oungans", to help them locate kidnapped loved ones and find ...
In August 1791, some 200 slaves gathered at night in Bois-Caiman in northern Haiti for a Vodou ceremony organized by Dutty Boukman, a renowned enslaved leader and Vodou priest. They sacrificed a pig, ...
It’s been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on its ...
Haiti’s health system has long been fragile ... Even if a hospital is open, sometimes there is little or no medical staff because gang violence erupts daily in Port-au-Prince, forcing doctors ...
As gang violence continues unabated, medical workers have struggled to help the wounded and ill. Haiti’s biggest public hospital remains closed, along with at least a dozen other smaller ...
The last opportunity for U.S. nationals to flee violence-wracked Haiti on a government-chartered evacuation flight arrived Friday, with no sign of the chaos easing in the tiny Caribbean nation.
The ongoing gang violence in Haiti has driven 17,000 people in the capital from their homes, with many crammed into abandoned schools. Gunfire still echoes daily throughout Port-au-Prince though ...
Haiti has formally established a transitional council to fill a leadership vacuum by choosing a new prime minister, and to restore order in the Caribbean country ravaged by gang violence.
Friday’s development was cheered by those who believe the council could help steer Haiti in a new direction and help quell widespread gang violence. More than 1,550 people were killed across ...
Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted ...
Some women in Haiti have turned to sex work in order to provide for their families as basic goods become increasingly scarce.