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Alvarez y su Son - ¿Y que tu quieres te den? Dedicated to Yoruba Orishas
One of Cuba's most popular performers, Adalberto Alvarez performs one of the dance floor's most popular songs and homage to the Orishas - if you have the stamina!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt0taRu0dE0



Song feature Sango, Osun, Esu, Ogun and other gods
Mis Ancestros" Rumbatá, Heikel Pro e Ito. Dir. Oscar Alejandro


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjtlspWL8A



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dri44vTYZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71r8tNlOqAI

Ifa Consultation in Brazil





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-QVXx1utTY

Ifa consultations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_12c4gAWyH8&t=184s

Celebration of Orisha Ogun Lakaaye Orisa in Brazil by Yoruba Brazil Oyinbo

Ogun Lakaaye Celebrated in Brazil by Oyinbo. Yoruba Brazil, Yoruba Religion is accepted in Brazil so much. Yoruba Isese Religion is global now.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuzlsgtXb0
Santeria priest says religion is flourishing with new devotees




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79pyL2CGrSw

Santeria
There are over 1 million practitioner of Santeria in USA. 100million world wide

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Animal Sacrifice


The Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of animal sacrifice for religious purposes in Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993), voting unanimously to strike down a set of local ordinances prohibiting the practice because they specifically targeted the Santería religion.

At the same time, the Court continued to be divided over the appropriate test to determine the constitutionality of free exercise claims.

Santería religion uses animal sacrifice
Santería combines elements of Roman Catholicism and some African religious practices. It originated in West Africa, and adherents brought it to Cuba during the slave trade and then to the United States following the Cuban revolution.

Some Santeríans practice animal sacrifice as part of their religious ritual and belief. They cut the throats of chickens, goats, sheep, or turtles, which are often eaten later as part of religious ceremonies involving weddings, births, and deaths.

City banned animal sacrifices in response to proposed Santerían church
In 1987 a group of Santeríans made plans to open a church in Hialeah, Florida. In response, the city council passed a number of ordinances limiting animal sacrifice, which the city defined as “to unnecessarily kill, torment, or mutilate an animal in a public or private ritual or ceremony not for the primary purpose of food consumption.”

The city argued that there were considerable health risks involved with feeding, housing, slaughtering, and disposing of animals in locations not properly zoned for these practices. They estimated that as many as 10,000 animals were slaughtered each year in areas of the city not so zoned.

The city also cited a concern for animal cruelty as another reason for the regulations.

Court considered state interest v. free exercise of religion
The Supreme Court voted 9-0 to strike down the ordinances with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy delivering the opinion of the Court. Despite the unanimous vote, Justices Antonin Scalia, David H. Souter, and Harry A. Blackmun each wrote separate concurring opinions.

The justices spent most of their time debating the new free exercise test articulated in Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990).

In Smith, Scalia said that neutrality should be the standard used to adjudicate free exercise claims. The neutrality standard had replaced the longstanding free exercise test from Sherbert v. Verner (1963) that government could only burden religious practice if a compelling state interest existed and the government used the least-restrictive means of achieving that interest. The neutrality standard was much easier for governments to meet than was the compelling interest test.

Kennedy adopted a hybrid approach, explaining that “a law failing to satisfy [the requirements of neutrality and general applicability] must be justified by a compelling governmental interest and must be narrowly tailored to advance that interest.”

Court concluded ordinance violated the First Amendment and targeted one religious group
Kennedy said that despite government claims to the contrary, the ordinances were clearly targeted at Santeríans and were therefore not neutral. He then turned to the reasons given by the state and concluded that they were neither “compelling” nor “narrowly tailored.”

Kennedy noted that hunters, restaurants, and people who fish were not subject to the regulations, thereby making the government’s public health arguments a sham. He charged that the city’s animal cruelty argument also was a smokescreen, as authorities did not seek to prohibit kosher slaughter although that method was similar to the way Santeríans sacrificed animals: “simultaneous and instantaneous severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument.”

Animal cruelty laws could be at issue in future
Justice Blackmun in his concurrence explained that one day the Court would have to decide the issue of animal sacrifice for religious purposes under a statute that met the neutrality test: “A harder case would be presented if [a religious group] were requesting an exemption from a generally applicable anti-cruelty law. The result in the case before the Court today, and the fact that every Member of the Court concurs in that result, does not necessarily reflect this Court’s views of the strength of a State’s interest in prohibiting cruelty to animals. ... The number of organizations that have filed ... briefs on behalf of this interest, however, demonstrates that it is not a concern to be treated lightly.”

Lukumi Babalu was essentially an easy case because the ordinances were written so poorly. The Court has not yet revisited the issue of animal sacrifice.

This article was originally published in 2009. Artemus Ward is professor of political science faculty associate at the college of law at Northern Illinois University. Ward received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University and served as a staffer on the House Judiciary Committee. He is an award-winning author of several books of the U.S. Supreme Court and his research and commentary have been featured in such outlets as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, NBC Nightly News, Fox News, and C-SPAN.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/30/animal-sacrifice


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2gtMhYUaAI
What is Santeria? All about my religion



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2se_zimj40
African Pantheons and the Orishas: Crash Course World Mythology #11

USA Animal Sacrifice Law Was Amended Because of Yoruba Religion

THE FIRST AMENDMENT : Lukumi

We always think of animal sacrifice as an ancient ritual, but many people still practice it today. This sparked some controversy in Florida in the late 1980s, leading to a landmark Supreme Court decision in Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah. This case still influences religious freedom law today, even being cited in the courts' decisions to strike down President Donald Trump's so-called Muslim Ban.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZb0pwBf2OE
Is Animal Sacrifice Legal in the USA?


In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a First Amendment religious free exercise challenge brought by a Florida Santerían church in Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah. However, Lukumi may be the most misunderstood legal precedent in recent history. The decision is often cited for the proposition that religious practitioners have a constitutional right to engage in animal sacrifice. This is far from the truth. Lukumi was decided in a unique context, and its holding was not based on the merits of animal sacrifice. This article will demonstrate that Lukumi does not force government to acquiesce to animal sacrifice, or the “litter” it creates. The article can be found in this link: https://www.animallaw.info/article/free-exercise-does-not-protect-animal-sacrifice-misconception-church-lukumi-babalu-aye-v



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Np0YD3Ax_k
Soul food: Santeria

YORUBA also known as SANTERIA OR LUCUMI or NAGOS or Regla de Ocha or IFA RELIGION or ISHESE is a fast spreading religion of the Americas with about 1 million followers in the USA and about 100 million follower from all over the world. (This has been happening before the 15th century)




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNs81YjZ4U
AFRO CUBAN SANTERIA || SACRIFICIAL CEREMONY || Viewer Discretion || Santeria in Cuba



https://www.animallaw.info/article/free-exercise-does-not-protect-animal-sacrifice-misconception-church-lukumi-babalu-aye-v

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNs81YjZ4U

AFRO CUBAN SANTERIA || SACRIFICIAL CEREMONY || Viewer Discretion || Santeria in Cuba





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79pyL2CGrSw

Santeria
over 1 million practionrt 0f samteria in usa. 100million world wide






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99YDhGY5PnI

We Are Making Sacrifices To Various Orishas To Rescue The Girls - America-born Ifa Priestess

Wife of former Vice Chancellor OAU and the "Awise Agbaye" of native worshipers Professor Wande Abimbola, Mrs. Ajisebo Abimbola in this interview chanted Ifa corpus and discussed efforts being made by various worshipers of Orisa's all over the world in respect of the abducted Chibok girls.







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIrXOoJjFwU

Shangó






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJOrs-9JoM

Cuba - Rumba - Elegua





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dri44vTYZw

Elegua (Afro-Cuban Orisha)
Washington, DC. Improvised demonstration of the Afro-Cuban Orisha dance Elegua, at Monroe Street Market Arts Plaza (Brookland). Performed by Duane Wrenn and Kati Hernandez. Joined by DC Casineros: Adrian, Alison, Amanda, and Margaret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmp3tys8fbI
Ogun celebration by white in Brazil




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHFIJZm2dzw
Skin that Speaks: the "talking drums" of Nigeria | Michael Varner | TEDxUTA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dri44vTYZw




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76gxeV-pNsg
Oshun

.Song feature Sango, Osun, Esu, Ogun and other gods

Mis Ancestros" Rumbatá, Heikel Pro e Ito. Dir. Oscar Alejandro


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjtlspWL8A



EL CHACAL - Shangó [OFFICIAL VIDEO]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SIG8fkqCRg



Adalberto Alvarez y su Son - ¿Y que tu quieres te den? Dedicated to yoruba gods
One of Cuba's most popular performers, Adalberto Alvarez performs one of the dance floor's most popular songs and homage to the Orishas - if you have the stamina!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt0taRu0dE0

Alvarez y su Son - ¿Y que tu quieres te den? Dedicated to Yoruba gods
One of Cuba's most popular performers, Adalberto Alvarez performs one of the dance floor's most popular songs and homage to the Orishas - if you have the stamina!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt0taRu0dE0



Song feature Sango, Osun, Esu, Ogun and other gods
Mis Ancestros" Rumbatá, Heikel Pro e Ito. Dir. Oscar Alejandro


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjtlspWL8A



Ogoun in the Haitian Voodoo (The Nangos)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPQ2GmcPb4w





 1/5 ABEOKUTA | Exploring links between Jamaican and Nigerian Heritage

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I45Az1_uybE&t=0s



 4/5 SANTERIA | Exploring links between Cuba and Nigerian heritage
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxHxBkv3MNM



 5/5 EXPLORING NAGO | CONNECTIONS BETWEEN HAITI, JAMAICA, NIGERIA & BENIN


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6cUAWWx9zc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEfwcKG5AKs&t=19s
A History of Yoruba Religion In Brazil




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuzlsgtXb0
Santeria priest says religion is flourishing with new devotees




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79pyL2CGrSw

Santeria
There are over 1 million practitioner of Santeria in USA. 100million world wide




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYLWpmAgeE0

African Spirituality in the Americas: Yoruba Orishas in Brazil

Spirituality is one of the cultural systems that Africans have best perpetuated and recreated beyond their continent of origin. Many of the Africans enslaved in the Americas brought with them spiritual beings whom they continue to worship in their imposed homelands, sometimes even establishing them as characteristic of the new societies of the hemisphere.

In Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia in Brazil, culture of African origin is most visible and pervasive. The Orishas, the spiritual beings of the Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin in West Africa, reign in public life.

YORUBA also known as SANTERIA OR LUCUMI or NAGOS is a fast spreading religion of the Americas with about 1 million followers in the USA and about 100 million follower from all over the world.

And this has been happening before the 15th century


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71r8tNlOqAI

Ifa Consultation in Brazil





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-QVXx1utTY

Ifa consultations




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNs81YjZ4U
AFRO CUBAN SANTERIA || SACRIFICIAL CEREMONY || Viewer Discretion || Santeria in Cuba




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzKTTJHHk04

Yoruba: Official Language in Brazil

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Best federal university, University of Ibadan and the best state university, LAUTECH, are in Oyo state.

All top rank universities are in Southwest Nigeria.

juman:
If the news is true, I commend oyo governor for taking right steps in right direction.

Second term, insha Allah.

The new is true and can be confirmed on many news paper.
This interesting development actually deserve to be on front page.

KillIgbohoN0W:
Afonja like list pass anything.
Their love for statistics no be here.

But wetin we dey see for reality dey very different. Lautech wey be home of yahoo boys and cultists, some no fit even speak pidgin not to talk of English.

Na wa 4 Afonja jarey

Maybe you should come up with your own emotional based ranking then.

NGpatriot:
You mean LAUTECH is better than University of Ife and UNILAG?

This must be comedy..

Those you mention are not state university

Lautech is now #4 in overall university ranking

#1 Best State University &
#4 Fourth-Best Overall University
Lautech My Alma Mater

Latest 2021 NUC Ranking

The latest ranking of Nigerian Universities has shown the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, as the best State University in the country.

It returned it as the fourth-best overall university in Nigeria.


https://tribuneonlineng.com/lautech-retains-nuc-ranking-as-best-state-university/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEfwcKG5AKs&t=19s
A History of Yoruba Religion In Brazil




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuzlsgtXb0
Santeria priest says religion is flourishing with new devotees




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79pyL2CGrSw

Santeria
There are over 1 million practitioner of Santeria in USA. 100million world wide




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYLWpmAgeE0

African Spirituality in the Americas: Yoruba Orishas in Brazil

Spirituality is one of the cultural systems that Africans have best perpetuated and recreated beyond their continent of origin. Many of the Africans enslaved in the Americas brought with them spiritual beings whom they continue to worship in their imposed homelands, sometimes even establishing them as characteristic of the new societies of the hemisphere.

In Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia in Brazil, culture of African origin is most visible and pervasive. The Orishas, the spiritual beings of the Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin in West Africa, reign in public life.

YORUBA also known as SANTERIA OR LUCUMI or NAGOS is a fast spreading religion of the Americas with about 1 million followers in the USA and about 100 million follower from all over the world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71r8tNlOqAI

Ifa Consultation in Brazil





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-QVXx1utTY

Ifa consultations




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNs81YjZ4U
AFRO CUBAN SANTERIA || SACRIFICIAL CEREMONY || Viewer Discretion || Santeria in Cuba




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzKTTJHHk04

Yoruba: Official Language in Brazil

I SMH

Dear OP AngelaGold, keep up with the deception and arrogance.

(The OP should not bother to quote me because I will not reply.)

You can as well make your mind known without informing us of how non-Nigerian you are and about how you work with a media house. You did these to gain false credibility.

I read everything your writeup: you did not write like someone who work with a media house.

You also sound like someone with average intelligence and with no depth. An average secondary school student can write what you wrote up there and even better.

I am sorry, I have to comment like I do but you can always be honest next time.

If you have no solution to offer but deception, you better not call attention.

Your writeup is more specious than the video itself.

Keep on keeping on at the defending of the indefensible. I pray you or your family member will not experience the effect of bandit or terrorist attack.

Let me ask you.

# Why is the government trying to assassinate sunday igboho for his campaign against bandits? (The government people in uniform invaded his house at midnight, murdered almost all the occupant at sight and destroy his properties)

# Why did the government vigorously attack the creation of Amotekun (The Southwest Security Network) created to curtail the activities of bandits in the south west Nigeria?

# Why was Gumi not invited by DSS over his romance with bandits but Obadiah Mailafia was, for his comment against them?

# Why did the government sent soldiers to Lekki to shoot at protesters?

# Why is the government in hurry to label terrorists as 'repentant' and ready to fly them around, pay them and release them back into the public without due process? People with little offence are rottening in jail waiting for justice while known terrorist are getting honored by the government.


Pictures below are of terrorists rebranded by Nigeria government as "repentant", put on payroll and set free without any trial.


I can't say whether the video is true or not, but the present government has shown us beyond resonable doubt whose side they belong in fight against bandits.

Transcriber:
Very correct

Kaare omoluabi

My name has an orishá in it and I will persuade my children to keep it and practice our isese

My name also has Orisha in it and I don't care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJNyw8xKEY

Lukumi: YORUBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJNyw8xKEY

Yoruba: The Lukumi

Crofton:
Well said.

Although number 3 makes no sense, can you prove it ?

Please watch these video for proves


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-FG2oWl-2k

Yoruba Race: You are being manipulated if you do these 11

One thing about manipulation is that the person being manipulated will think everything is Ok and that he or she is doing the right thing. Here are 11 signs to know whether you are being manipulated as a Yoruba human.

#1. You revoke your Yoruba name because it has one of the Orishas in it: Whether it’s your pastor that convinced you by giving you some spiritual excuses or its because you want to travel out of Nigeria, one way or the other you are been manipulated.

#2. You see Yoruba religion as idolatry: all the world religion is idolatry, including all the Abrahamic religion: Christianity, Islam, name it. For a religion to be idolatry, there must be items of worship or of reference to deity like pictures or statutes e.g. the cross, Kaaba of the Bedouin tribes; religion rituals such as the killing of rams, Holy communion; and then Human-God reference or representative and or messenger.

#3. You totally believe the slave trade narration as better explanation for the appearance of the Yoruba race all over the world: This is a lie that we are been told again and again. Yoruba are believed to be part of the pre-Columbia American.

#4. You derogatory call the Yoruba language “vernacular” and shun children and young adult from speaking it: The word "vernacular" in itself is not a negative word as it is simply can mean "indigenous language of a people". If a people are prevented from speaking their language, then who will?

#5. You do not have many Yoruba traditional wears: If you think that putting on of Yoruba cloth will make you look less "corporate", and you don't really care about acquiring Yoruba traditional outfit, you may need to have a rethink about your heritage and start taking deliberate effort about this.

#6. You prefer foreign music to Yoruba: non Yoruba music are all good, in fact you can get spiritual and entertained through music, but manipulation set in when you start making illogical preference to non-Yoruba music and think music about Yoruba Orisha, culture and tradition are bad.

#7. You cannot recite some of the Yoruba poems and rhymes: Poems and rhymes are part of your cultural identity. The poems were created to teach morals and inculcate the Omoluabi character. If you defaulted here, then now is the time not to only start learning but to also teach your children. Teachers in schools should also encourage teaching and memorising of these. Have you seen the beauty of: Toju Iwa, Ise loogun ise, Kini n o fole se laye ti mo wa...

#8. You do not have a Yoruba name or you hate being called by your Yoruba name.

#9. You name your children many non-Yoruba name and prefer to call them by their non-Yoruba names: This is also a sign of been manipulated.

#10. Your children cannot speak Yoruba: They speak other language fluently but you frowning at them whenever they speak Yoruba is inferiority complex and a sign of been manipulated. This is not even in the Yoruba gene. 'A complete child' should be taught to speak not only foreign language fluently but also Yoruba.

#11. You think that explaining of concepts with Yoruba in schools is bad: how better will a student understand than when tough concepts are explained using the student's native language.

See other Entertaining and Educative findings about the Yoruba race on the thread with link below:
https://www.nairaland.com/6865883/yoruba-race-history-culture-spread

MorataFC:
Op,you are guilty of all,I expected u to write this write-up in Yoruba .

Many of you think Yoruba is easy, if I ask you to mention this amount in Yoruba now many of u will fail. #1,578,066.23.

Edakun e ma binu, mi o ba ti ko ni yoruba. Ni tooto ni mo jebi die, sugbon kiise gbogbo re.

MorataFC:
Lekki people?

Tell me more about Lekki people