There’s the Santa Muerte dressed in a silver and shiny green gown and draped in jewelry—miniature necklaces, earrings, and a crown. There’s the figure clothed in a painted-on red and gold ...

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 ...

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For instance, a red robe signifies love and passion, while a black robe is associated with protection and death. Devotees of ...

Believers of the Santa Muerte, affectionally called "La Niña Blanca" and "The White Lady," typically place altar offerings of fruit, such as red apples, food, cigarettes and alcohol, not blood ...

Santa Muerte is usually depicted with a skeletal female frame that resembles the Grim Reaper. Felipe “Pasitas” Lopez, who founded this group of followers, brought a red statue that nearly ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is also a season when people invoke la Santa Muerte - or the Death Saint. ANDREW CHESNUT: She is the saint who never discriminates, because death accepts everybody.

It's unknown who built the gray cinder block structure that houses an elaborate alter to Santa Muerte, or Holy Death, on Camino Real Highway in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. In recent years, US law ...

This is a glimpse of last year's festival dedicated to the Santa Muerte. Coatepec, Veracruz, is famous for being a coffee-growing town in the Sierra Veracruzana. Tourism has grown substantially in ...

MEXICO CITY — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday, authorities said. Two other people were killed ...

A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult "La Santa Muerte" was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday, authorities said. Two other people were killed and eight injured in ...