A move by the Africana spiritualist non-profit Unuchi Foundation, which is campaigning for the repeal of the Obeah Act, has caused Christian groups to push back, worried that a flood of demonic forces ...

Campaigners say the Obeah Act in Jamaica was born out of colonial fear and control and must be changed to stop the practice being criminalised Christian congregations across Jamaica have rallied ...

TO put it bluntly, it is time to decriminalise the practice of Obeah! That some leaders in the Jamaican Church community should take to the streets demanding that the Government does not consider this ...

The practice, which merges pre-Abrahamic African religion, Christianity, and indigenous Caribbean features, has been stigmatised in the region Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up ...

Christian leaders in Jamaica are voicing strong opposition to a campaign to repeal the nation’s Obeah Act, warning that legalizing the folk spiritual practice would open the door to “confusion” and ...

Feared, ridiculed and outlawed, the African-­Caribbean spiritual traditions that came to be known as Obeah have survived for centuries as an underground practice of spirituality and healing. Even with ...

I was fascinated by a February 22 front page Tribune article titled “Sacrilege.” The article was about the alleged desecration of several graves at the Spikenard Graveyard off Cowpen Road. What I ...