When a life-size skeleton dressed like the Grim Reaper first appeared on a street altar in Tepito, Mexico City, in 2001, many ...

Believers in the figure known as "Saint Death" are paying homage, even as the Catholic church in Mexico rejects her. Halloween is almost here, so is Dia de los Muertos - the Day of the Dead. It's a ...

MEXICO CITY — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday, authorities said. Two other people were killed and eight ...