HOUSTON, TX -- While other families may be spending their Friday evenings recuperating from work or school, Houston resident Vanessa Ramirez, her mother Dalila and several friends sit at the dining ...

It was a long time ago. In 1540, a party of Spanish conquistadors from Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s expedition rode ...

The traditional dance group performs in the days after Christmas to offer up expressions of gratitude, prayer and good ...

Meredith de la Peña has been visiting Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto and Tepeyac de San Antonio for many years, but the Mother's Day Mass on Sunday was special: It was her first Mother's Day as a parent.

Los Matachines de Alcalde performed their annual dance in front of St. Anne’s Catholic Church on Thursday. The tradition of the matachin dances dates back hundreds of years and has been carried down ...

The ability to trace your lineage back to its ancestral roots is powerful. And for over 30 years, the Matachines de Ciudad Juárez, also known as Danza del Carrizo, have been honoring and preserving ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)-- Today some El Pasoans gathered to honor our community’s culture, heritage, and traditions at the annual La Fe Segundo Barrio Matachines celebration. It was held this afternoon ...

More than 700 colorful matachines took to the streets near Mission Concepción on Sunday to celebrate the Immaculate Conception, some garbed in bright dresses and tall, feathered plumes as music from ...

FREMONT — In much the same spirit of their native Aztec ancestors had centuries ago, many Mexican-American members of the Catholic Church from throughout the area gathered to celebrate the traditional ...

The dance marking the day of the Virgen de Guadalupe began with a clap of thunder from a drum in El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio. Matachines dance dates back to just after the arrival of the Spanish ...

A health center in El Paso's Segundo Barrio held its annual Matachines celebration in hopes of keeping the centuries-long ...