SOURCE : National African Religion Congress rejects Komgo religion
It seem the National African Religion Congress, a certifying Board for Priests and Priestesses of African-Based religions (COG would be a rough Wiccan equivalent), doesn’t include Palo practitioners due to their ritual methods.
“Palo, which arrived in Cuba during the West African slave trade, has specific rituals for harnessing power from the dead, using human remains and placing hexes on others. For this reason, the National African Religion Congress has declined to include Palo as an official religion in its directory for the time being, said George Ware, NARC president and a high priest of voodoo and former practitioner of Santeria.”
It would be interesting to hear more about the tensions between the different syncretic African faiths in the Americas, but that would mean reporting would have to dig deeper than stories on animal hearts or candles left at cemeteries (or street corners).
