(CN) - The 5th Circuit ruled that a Texas town can't ban a Santeria priest from sacrificing animals at his home. The court said the ban placed a "substantial burden" on the religious practices of the ...

A priest of Santeria—an Afro-Caribbean religion that requires animal sacrifice—can claim his arrest on animal cruelty charges violates the federal constitution, federal judge has ruled in a case of ...

Euless plans to ask the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the appeal of a man who the court said could sacrifice animals at his home. The court's decision last week allowing animal sacrifice ...

SAN ANTONIO – A married couple arrested after attending a Santeria ceremony involving animal sacrifice say they aren't cruel people or criminals -- they're just believers of a misunderstood religion.

A mysterious bag in Galveston. Credit: Photo by Autumn Smith and J.D. Hartman On Wednesday, August 5 at 2 p.m., Houston artist Autumn Smith and her boyfriend J.D. Hartman were walking on the trails in ...

Like Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, Inwood Hill Park has long been known as a popular spot for Santeria animal sacrifices. Joggers have reported seeing mutilated chickens tied to trees, and one ...

DALLAS -- A federal appeals court reversed Friday a lower court's ruling that barred a Santeria priest from sacrificing goats in his Texas home, saying a city's decision to prohibit the ritual ...

SAN ANTONIO – Animal cruelty charges against 10 of 11 people who participated in a Santeria ritual involving animal sacrifice have been dropped due to insufficient evidence, online court records show.

A federal judge has barred Euless from enforcing a rule to prevent a Santeria priest from sacrificing animals in his home. His attorney, Eric Rassbach, said Tuesday the ruling means Merced can resume ...

About the practice of animal sacrifice in the Santeria faith. Animal sacrifice is central to Santeria. The animal is sacrificed as food, rather than for any obscure mystical purpose. Followers of an ...

An old Supreme Court decision about ritual animal sacrifices helped halt President Trump’s travel bans. The three federal appeals judges who refused to reinstate Trump’s executive order last week ...

Follower of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria sits before a ceremony amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease outbreak in Havana HAVANA (Reuters) - The family of Emilia Montoya, 79, ...