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Santeros Win PI
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1994, page 16
Santeria is a religion which combines aspects of Catholicism and African animism. Believers worship saints, or orishas, who have their own personalities and characteristics. Santeria is widely practiced in Caribbean and Latin American countries. In Church of the Lukumi Babah Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 113 S. Ct. 2217(1993), ...
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