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Nigeria: Dubbed a witch, expelled from school, 10-yr-old Rachael battles college to regain dignity

A school principal in Osun State has sent a student, accused by her classmate of possessing witchcraft, packing from the school. Read more here.

Nepal: Dalit woman thrashed on charge of witchcraft

A Dalit woman from Damhimadai VDC in Mahottari district has been misbehaved from her neighbors on the charge of practising witchcraft. Read more here.

Uganda: Three Children Found Headless

Child sacrifice is still on an increase upcountry following the murder of three children in Luweero district. Read more here.

Nigeria: Child Witch Saga: Father tortures 6-yr-old daughter for five days

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.

Cameroon: Wave of Ritual Killings Spark Panic in Cameroon, Increase Safety Measures

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.

Angola: Citizen accused of witchcraft killed in Camabatela

Camabatela – A 21-year old citizen was stubbed to death by two people accused of witchcraft, at Camabatela village, Ambaca Municipality, Northern Kwanza-Norte Province, Angop has learnt. Read more here.

Papua New Guinea: Villagers chop man to pieces and then burn his body parts to ashes after he was accused of being a witch doctor

An accused witch doctor said to have used sorcery to bring about the death of another man in a remote Papua New Guinea village has been chopped into pieces and his body parts burned to ashes. Read more here

India: Delhi High Court commutes death penalty of man who killed father

 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 

My life with the witch-burners

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 

Papua New Guinea: What To Do About ‘Witchcraft’

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 

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