Templo Santa Muerte spiritual leader Sahara Garcia, 54, of Los Angeles, leads a Friday evening service at the temple on the 4900 block of Melrose Avenue on June 30, 2023.

Santa Muerte, Jesus Malverde and saints prayed to by drug cartel and gang members were the topic of a law enforcement seminar at Bowie High School.

She often includes Jesus in her content, bringing him and Santa Muerte together through a friendly game of chess or pool. Morales cloaks the devotees in her videos in urban, edgy styles that are a ...

Santa Muerte sacrifices, mutilation killings tied to Juárez woman's arrest in El Paso ... They believe in the Catholic saints and Jesus Christ and they believe that’s not enough.

Santa Muerte has references in Mexican culture since Spanish colonial times as the colonizers' Catholicism mixed with belief in the death deities of the native Aztec and Mayan cultures, according ...

Santa Muerte’s popularity was also aided by the cultural exchange that arose from the sometimes overestimated presence of Mexican cartels in Latin America, Chesnut told InSight Crime. “The expansion ...

Santa Muerte is viewed as an “unofficial saint” often associated with the cartel, gangs, or sex workers. Dr. Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, ...

Like Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday, the Santa Muerte is honored on Nov. 1 and 2. Roman Catholic leaders in Mexico have condemned the deity’s connection to violence and the illicit drug trade.

There are a lot of stories about the Santa Muerte's miracles. 61-year-old Don Alberto says he was cured of heart cancer, which almost ended his life and family business.