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 ...

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and the district attorney’s office won’t discuss the arrests last week of 11 people on charges of animal cruelty involving what one official described as “some sort ...

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 ...

GALVESTON, Texas – Beachgoers in Galveston reportedly came across a ‘macabre’ scene on Sunday morning. According to Galveston Animal Control Officials, officers were called to the beach near 56th ...

It's not every day that Baptists, Mormons and the National Association of Evangelicals are bound in common cause with Presbyterians, Lutherans and liberal groups such as Norman Lear's People for the ...

San Mateo County officials cited a South San Francisco woman for animal cruelty Tuesday after humane society officers removed up to 100 chickens, six pygmy goats, some rabbits, a pot-bellied pig and a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Santeria priest who sued a Texas city for denying him permission to sacrifice a goat as part of a religious ceremony asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to let him resume the ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - High priests of Cuba's dominant Afro-Cuban religion declined on Tuesday to venture any predictions regarding the health of ailing leader Fidel Castro but recommended the sacrifice ...

A pending challenge to the jurisdiction of the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals relies in part on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the right of Santeria priests in Florida to sacrifice chickens ...

A Sunday morning walk on a Texas beach apparently led to the discovery of animal remains that appear to have been part of an animal sacrifice ceremony, authorities say. KPRC-TV in Houston reports two ...