Rooted in both indigenous Mexican traditions and Catholicism, Santa Muerte is seen as an amoral, non-judgmental saint who grants favors to those who venerate her. Despite opposition from the ...

Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte — a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their ...

A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult "La Santa Muerte" was gunned down at an ... The saint — whose name means roughly "Holy Death" — is often worshipped by convicts, drug addicts ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down ... The saint — whose name means roughly “Holy Death” — is often worshipped by ...

Read full article: Substitute teacher arrested after student thrown in classroom, St. Cloud police say FILE - A statue of "Nuestra Seora de la Santa Muerte," or Our Lady of Holy Death, is ...