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Voodoo High Priest: Christians Hogging Haiti Aid

Jane Yager — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:10:36 CST

Evangelical Christians are blocking much-needed aid from reaching Haiti's many voodoo practitioners, says the religion's top leader. "The evangelicals are in control and they take everything for themselves," high priest Max Beauvoir tells the Daily Telegraph as he points to the first aid shipment to arrive in his community. Pat...

Voodoo Priests Object to Mass Burials

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:51:00 CST

Haiti's voodoo priests are objecting to anonymous mass burials of earthquake victims, raising fears that such desecration could result in restless souls of the dead returning as zombies. "It it not in our culture to bury people in such a fashion," Haiti's main voodoo leader, Max Beauvoir, told Haiti President...

Haitian Slams Robertson for Devil Pact Diss

Jane Yager — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:10:00 CST

So, the Satanic curse that Pat Robertson blames for Haiti's current suffering? The Haitian ambassador to the US begs to point out that Americans might not want to be so quick to join the televangelist in equating the island nation's fight for independence from France to a pact with the...

Court Sticks It to Sarko Over Voodoo Dolls

Nick McMaster — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:25:01 CST

An appeals court in France essentially told the nation's president to lighten up today. The court rejected a bid by Nicolas Sarkozy to ban voodoo dolls made in his likeness, the International Herald Tribune reports. It ruled that the dolls can continue to be sold, only now they must have...

Sarko Loses Bid to Block Voodoo Doll

Rob Quinn — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:35:10 CDT

A French judge apparently finds Nicolas Sarkozy voodoo dolls funnier than the president does. The court threw out Sarkozy's Iawsuit against the maker of the dolls, the BBC reports, deciding it hadn't breached limits of "free expression and the right to humor." Sales of the presidential pincushion, which comes emblazoned...

Sarkozy Battles Voodoo Curse

Rob Quinn — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:13:38 CDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is demanding that a voodoo doll in his image be withdrawn from bookstores, the Daily Telegraph reports. The fuming Sarko has threatened a lawsuit if the French distributor does not comply. Some 20,000 of the dolls, which comes with pins and a voodoo guide, have...