The case,US v. Medina-Copete and Goxcon-Chagal, unfolded on June 28 2011, when New Mexico State Police Sergeant Arsenio Chavez pulled over a truck with Nevada plates on I-40 in Albuquerque for failing ...

Occultist Stone debuts with a thorough and illuminating introduction to Santa Muerte, the “Mexican female folk saint of death.” Stone covers the practices and concepts central to the Santa Muerte folk ...

Santa Muerte and other folk saints adopted by drug cartels, MS-13 gangsters and immigrant smugglers can be found across the United States, a researcher said. Criminals are also "misusing" Catholic ...

State Highway Patrol troopers stopped an eastbound tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 near Cambridge last month for swerving and having a broken tail light. When they talked to the driver, Efrain Gama ...

“People are always looking for a new devotion as a way of acquiring something for themselves.” This is the reflection of Bishop Emeritus Michael Pfeifer of San Angelo, Texas, illustrating a danger ...

Every morning before opening her shop to customers, Cristina Perez says “buenos días” to a green-cloaked, three-foot skeleton covered in dollar bills — offerings folded in triangles and taped to the ...

SAN ANTONIO – KSAT Investigates recently examined a lawsuit alleging religious discrimination against a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office detention officer candidate over a Santa Muerte altar in their ...

Believers in the figure known as "Saint Death" are paying homage, even as the Catholic church in Mexico rejects her. Halloween is almost here, so is Dia de los Muertos - the Day of the Dead. It's a ...

During one of Pope Francis' speeches on his landmark trip to Mexico earlier this year, he issued a cryptic admonishment. In an address to Mexican bishops, the pontiff said that he was "particularly ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Firearms and drug-trafficking convictions for two Oklahoma residents were overturned Wednesday thanks to a skeleton saint known as La Santa Muerte. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court ...