This page provides an overview of the Rastafari movement including statistics, practices and history. Rastafari is a young, Africa-centred religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following ...

Exploring the origins of Rastafari in the slave trade. The movement [Rastafari] views Ethiopia as the promised land, the place where Black people will be repatriated through a wholesale exodus from ...

Far far across the valley comes the sound of an almighty procession Zion bound. Chanting chanting Iyabinghi drums yunder and yant the call to redemption, Babylon doomed to fall, Iyudgmant to come ...

Filmed in Toronto and Jamaica, this DVD is part history lesson and part personal journey, as Toronto youth worker and Nyabinghi drummer Nation Cheong seeks a deeper knowledge of Rastafari, putting his ...

Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently ...

This rare event — opening a tabernacle made of wooden poles and roofed with iron sheets — illustrates the Rastafari's expanding ranks in Kenya, according to members of this congregation. Kenya only ...

There's a back room at Toronto's historic Broadview Faith Temple that looks a lot like a cannabis dispensary, but the man who will be running the place describes it differently. "This is where members ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs. The ...