Deep in West Africa, we went looking for real voodoo—and found something we didn’t expect. What started as a simple interview turned into chaos as the spirits took over the streets. This is not ...

Benin is little known for its influence on African popular music. It is better known as the home of vodun, an ancient ...

Twenty priestesses, naked from the waist up, sang and danced before spraying the watching crowd with water "blessed" by the divinities. A dozen priests surrounded him as he made incantations, threw ...

OUIDAH, Benin (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday visited the city considered the capital of voodoo in West Africa, praying at a Catholic cathedral just across the street from a large voodoo temple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo/Dieu ...