She often includes Jesus in her content, bringing him and Santa Muerte together through a friendly game of chess or pool.

Estranged from the Catholic Church, some Latinos turn to veneration of unofficial saints ‘People are just not feeling accepted within that box that the Catholic Church is desperately holding on ...

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.

Santa Muerte sacrifices, mutilation killings tied to Juárez woman's arrest in El Paso Human hearts placed on altars to controversial Mexican folk saint ...

The discovery of another Santa Muerte shrine in El Salvador shows the increasing popularity of the so-called Saint of Death beyond Mexico.

Michelle Angelica Pineda, alias “La Chely,” is accused in gang-related mutilation killings were hearts were removed and offered to La Santa Muerte in Juárez, Mexico. She was arrested by an ...

Religious discrimination lawsuit highlights controversy, cultural roots of Santa Muerte Santa Muerte is viewed as an ‘unofficial saint’ linked to cartels, gangs, sex workers ...

Santa Muerte, or "Saint Death", is a Mesoamerican folk saint and personification of death. Folk saints are those not recognized as legitimate and condemned by the church. Despite this, Santa Muerte is ...

A Mexican photojournalist documents a tradition that takes place in Coatepec, Veracruz during the Day of the Dead celebrations in México, in honor to the Santa Muerte.

Baby Jesus and Santa Claus should ride in tandem. A classic pairing just like Batman and Robin, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Starsky and Hutch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Riggs and Murtaugh.

Santa Muerte, the Mexican patron saint of death, is believed to champion the marginalized — and as the undocumented community grows in New York, so does her following.