–CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Several houses of worship in the U.S. Virgin Islands received funds from FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program this year. In total, about $900,000 was awarded to various houses of worship and nonprofit…
LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking marijuana. For Rastafari, the…
SAINT JOHN’S (AP) — Antigua and Barbuda recently granted Rastafari official sacramental authorization to grow and smoke marijuana that their faith deems sacred. Rastafari across the world have been persecuted and jailed for decades for…
ST. JOHN’S — Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently became one…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The largest-ever celebration of Hanukkah on the U.S. Virgin Islands kicked off Monday and continues nightly through tomorrow, helping thousands across St. Thomas celebrate the millenia-old Festival of Light, celebrating the triumph…
ST ANDREW, Jamaica — At a Rastafari farming community high up in the hills above Jamaica’s capital, dreadlocked locals gather at the temple to worship and celebrate with Bible readings and traditional drumming and chanting.…
SANTO DOMINGO — The constitution provides for freedom of religion and belief. A concordat with the Holy See designates Roman Catholicism as the official state religion and extends to the Catholic Church special privileges not…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The attack was brazen, streamed live on the Internet: Men carrying big guns walked into a Holy Thursday church service, grabbed the pastor and three parishioners and led them away in full…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Herbert Bevard of St. Thomas today and named Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory as apostolic administrator, according to Wikipedia. St. Thomas is a suffragan diocese of…