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Jamaica Gleaner Mind &Spirit
published: Saturday | February 9, 2008

Did Christianity get its religion from Egypt?
The following is a paper presented by the Rev Clinton Chisholm, former senior pastor at the Phillippo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, during a debate on the origins on the Christian faith at a forum on the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies.

Venezuelans increasingly turn to Santeria for spiritual needs

The man says he is possessed by a god. He shouts, his body trembles and he lifts a sacrificed lamb to his lips, drinking its blood from the jugular. This initiation ceremony, seldom witnessed by outsiders, has become increasingly common in Venezuela, as the Afro-Cuban traditions of Santeria and other folk religions gain followers.





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