Getting help from the spirits, jinns and devils and scientific and practical communication with them are said to be magic in the etymological and jurisprudential technical terms. Read more here.
A school principal in Osun State has sent a student, accused by her classmate of possessing witchcraft, packing from the school. Read more here.
A Dalit woman from Damhimadai VDC in Mahottari district has been misbehaved from her neighbors on the charge of practising witchcraft. Read more here.
Child sacrifice is still on an increase upcountry following the murder of three children in Luweero district. Read more here.
A six- year- old girl, Edidiong Etok Akpan, who was subjected to a harrowing treatment by her father, Edet Etok Akpan, was rescued after she had been locked up in a room with her hands tied and mouth covered with a piece of cloth for five days. Read more here.
When Sarah Ewang, 41, heard about the homicide and dismemberment of 18 young women in Yaound, the capital of Cameroon, she cried and prayed to God to give strength to the victims families. Read more here.
The death sentence of a man, who had killed his father as sacrifice to a deity in 2008, has been reduced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court. Read more here
Philip Gibbs, a Catholic priest of Lower Hutt, was celebrating Sunday’s second mass last week at Mount Hagen Holy Trinity Cathedral in Papua New Guinea. Around 1000 people were in the congregation. Days earlier, many of them had burnt a “witch” to death. More here
Sermons, SMS and programs socialising children to reject violence: these are some of the responses that emerged from Papua New Guinea after our story about the ongoing belief in sorcery — and its brutal consequences. More here
A local court today sentenced a couple to life imprisonment for sacrificing a five-year old girl in January 2009 to get rid of their financial woes. Read full story here
