Benin News News Benin » Religion: Inside Vodun Days: What It’s Really Like To Experience Benin’s Most Important Cultural Festival
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I grew up in Malawi with Sunday school teachers who treated anything linked to "voodoo" as danger in capital letters. African ...
News Benin » Religion: In Benin, Voodoo’s birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred
PORTO-NOVO, Benin (AP) — For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get ...
News Benin » Religion: How Voodoo overcame suppression and became a democratic force in the West African nation of Benin
OUIDAH, Benin — Democracy came to the cradle of Voodoo religion in 1991, when Benin’s military dictator of many years surprisingly lost an election that he had organized. Mathieu Kérékou had amassed ...
News Benin » Religion: Benin's mecca of spirits and gods draws tourists and followers with famed Voodoo festival
OUIDAH, Benin — As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the gods and spirits that are evident all around the arena are ...