It's unknown who built the gray cinder block structure that houses an elaborate alter to Santa Muerte, or Holy Death ... nationwide manhunt unfolded. The shrine in Oropesa's bedroom sat on ...

A law enforcement source who saw the scene told the Center for Immigration Studies that Francisco Oropesa’s elaborate shrine honored the “Santa Muerte death cult.” The shrine of Nuestra ...

But to the desperately poor and overlooked residents of Tepito she is a pop-folk idol and often ... at the saint’s shrine who lifted his shirt and showed off a Santa Muerte tattoo, which he ...

The cult gained prominence in the 1940s and then again in 2001 when a street vendor named Queta Romero mounted an outdoor shrine to Santa Muerte in Tepito, one of Mexico’s City’s most violent ...

Albino, a Juarez trucker, stops by to pray by the shrine of La Santa Muerte along Camino Real highway. No one seems to know who built the structure housing dozens of figurines of the female Grim ...

Santa Muerte ... Sunday at a storefront shrine near MacArthur Park. “Angel created by faith,” they chanted, “allow the power in me to be released.” Santa Muerte is not a Catholic saint ...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (RNS) — Betzy Ballesteros, a 26-year-old transgender sex worker, keeps a shrine to Santa Muerte, the skeleton folk saint, in her home. Surrounding the statue are candles ...

Inside the house, was a Santa Muerte shrine, which illustrates the cartel connection to human smuggling. The Santa Muerte, also known asOur Lady of Holy Death, is associated to the drug cartel.

The group gathered at the Santa Muerte shrine in Guadalajara is small but the number of devotees is on the rise Mr Chesnut says more and more devotees have started incorporating Santa Muerte into ...

Santa Muerte is not the only object of supernatural ... the site of the Holy Child's most prominent North American shrine, is also known as the "Heroin Capital of the Southwest," with much of ...

They join the prostrated crowd and soon arrive at their destination: a shrine to Santa Muerte, the Saint of Death. In a show full of shocking twists and turns, there are no two characters quite as ...

The discovery in El Salvador of a shrine to Santa Muerte, a female deity associated with the criminal underworld, has revealed how the new religious movement has become popular among criminal groups ...