All the funky new performance spaces in Little Havana dressed in tatters on Friday, December 15, to honor Saint Lazaro, otherwise known as Babalu Aye, the Afro-Cuban orisha of plague and healing. At ...

On December 17, pilgrims flood the streets of the Cuban town of Rincón, home to a leprosarium and a church dedicated to St. Lazarus. Alejandro Ernesto/epa/Corbis After more than 50 years of economic ...

We always think of animal sacrifice as an ancient ritual, but many people still practice it today. This sparked some controversy in Florida in the late 1980s, leading to a landmark Supreme Court ...

When a U.S. Supreme Court justice ponders drowning his cat, you know the case is strange. But wet felines were just one odd element in a battle that pit a South Florida city against members of a Cuban ...

Verner (1963) ⚖️ Employment Division v. Smith (1990) ⚖️ Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993) ⚖️ Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) ⚖️ Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores (2014) Start your day ...