The Dansoman Police have arrested two security men at the Ebenezer Secondary School in connection with the murder of an eight-year old boy last Sunday. A pastor has also been invited for questioning on the matter.
On Tuesday, residents of Atomic Down found the decapitated body of Nana Yaw Buabeng at the Ebenezer school’s compound in what is suspected to be a case of ritual murder – head and genitals had been cut-off.
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It is rare to meet an African atheist. Africans generally believe in something. A lot of Nigerians I know are “Christians”. I would included myself in that number, but I am a little unusual in that I don’t attend a church pastored by a megalomaniac, who struts up and down a stage shouting and sweating in front of a congregation who sway, swoon, and ultimately empty out their pockets to fund the profligate lifestyle of the said megalomaniac. In other words I don’t attend the ever popular charismatic church.
In the end I’ve concluded that the reason there is so much delusion in African churches, is that African people are just too superstitious… In many parts of Africa herbal doctors, or “witch doctors” still operate and are heavily relied upon. I’m almost convinced that many African pastors are nothing more than “Christianized” witch doctors.
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A woman accused of witchcraft has been burned alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in Papua New Guinea. The brutal slaying of 20-year-old mother-of-one Kepari Leniata on Wednesday has been condemned by the nation’s prime minister, police and diplomatic observers.
She was stripped naked by several assailants, tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in petrol, then set alight on a pile of car tyres and rubbish… Some of the hundreds of bystanders took photographs and grisly pictures were published on the front pages of the country’s biggest circulating newspapers, The National and Post-Courier.
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A grandma from Clitheroe is to recreate the route the Pendle witches travelled to their trial at Lancaster Jail in support of children who are accused of witchcraft in Nigeria.
Sue Reddin, of Low Moor, is eager to rally support for the charity Stepping Stones Nigeria, which offers help for children who are accused of witchcraft and then abused, abandoned or beaten… She plans to set up a permanent fundraising group to support children who are accused of witchcraft in the African country.
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An East Texas man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the 2012 murder of his ex-girlfriend… Jose Diaz Perez, 51, was found guilty for murdering Caselin Ramirez on March 17, 2012. Officials tell KETK the couple had separated two weeks prior to the murder. Ramirez reportedly left Perez due to his excessive drinking and controlling behavior.
Perez showed up just after 1:00 a.m., and shot at Ramirez three times while he was in his truck… Perez said her shot Ramirez, by because she first attacked him and practiced witchcraft on him, as well.
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The Mauritian association, Markaz Al Farouk, who has campaigned actively for a few weeks on the ground against the recurrent practice of witchcraft in Mauritius on the part of the longanis, has already collected some 1,500 signatures of support to his petition to strengthen in particular the criminal penalties.
This document subject to the approval of the population wants the crime of witchcraft to be more severely punished on the island at height of fined 50,000 rupees and 5 years ‘ imprisonment.
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Violence against those branded as witches is particularly prevalent in Papua New Guinea, where “[the practice] is so widespread and of such a magnitude, it may be compared with the reported efflorescence of witchcraft throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, and Africa in the 19th” (Lindenbaum 119-128).
Not only is this problem pervasive, but it does not appear to be abating. Experts and government officials are at a loss to explain this upsurge in violence. Some point out the incredible ethnolinguistic diversity of the country.
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In recent years, our home; Akwa Ibom State, in Southern Nigeria, has witnessed dangerous rising trends of diabolical child abuse practices where innocent and defenseless children are accused of witchcraft and subsequently labeled ‘child witches’ by self proclaimed prophets in “spiritual” churches, parents, as well as adult relatives, in their local communities.
Once these churches accuse a child of witchcraft, such a child is subjected to varying forms of physical torture and extreme inhumane treatment under the guise of witchcraft exorcism. In many cases, children exposed to these dangerous rituals are maimed for life. In other cases, the children are out rightly murdered.
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A Kilifi ward representative has tabled a motion in the county assembly seeking to end the killing of people alleged to be witches. Sokoke MCA Teddy Mwambire said the motion was seconded yesterday and will soon be discussed.
He said many people suspected to be witches have been killed in unclear cirumstances. “The county records high number of murder cases alongside other forms of deaths that many people believe are as a result of being bewitched,” Mwambire said.
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The police at Onayena settlement in the Oshikoto Region have rubbished allegations of ritual killings in the area.
This follows claims by community members that several bodies in the area have been discovered without private parts.
Onayena station commander Sergeant Nathaniel Haiyaka said in the eight years that he has been stationed at Onayena, the police have never recovered a body without private parts, which may have been removed for the purpose of witchcraft.
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