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While Haiti is a deeply Catholic country, that Catholicism has always coexisted with the practice of Vodou, a religion that has roots in the animist beliefs of West Africa (from where many of the slaves brought to Haiti originally hailed), but incorporates elements of Catholicism and even some traditions that date back to the native Taino people. Here, at the Port-au-Prince cemetery, people pray at the cross of Baron Samedi, the Vodou spirit of the dead, on the holiday of Gede. Though Vodou has been practiced in Haiti for three centuries -- and a Vodou ceremony gave rise to one of the first serious slave uprisings in eighteenth-century Haiti -- the religion was only recognized officially by the state in 2003.
Credit: Daniel Morel/Wozo Productions
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