Nigerian "witch" children are abandoned, abused, tortured and murdered.

[JohnyCanuck]

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"Saving Africa's Witch Children"

In some of the poorest parts of Nigeria, where evangelical religious fervor is combined with a belief in sorcery and black magic, many thousands of children are being blamed for catastrophes, death and famine: and branded witches.

Denounced as Satan made flesh by powerful pastors and prophetesses, these children are abandoned, tortured, starved and murdered: all in the name of Jesus Christ.

This Dispatches Special follows the work of one Englishman, 29-year-old Gary Foxcroft, who has devoted his life to helping these desperate and vulnerable children. Gary's charity, Stepping Stones Nigeria, raises funds to help Sam Itauma, who five years ago, rescued four children accused of witchcraft. He now struggles to care for over 150 in a makeshift shelter and school in the Niger Delta region called CRARN (Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network).

Gary and Sam introduce Dispatches to some of the rescued children who have been through unimaginable horrors, such as Ekemeni, aged 13, who was tied up with chicken wire and starved and beaten for two weeks, and Mary, aged 14, who was burnt with acid before her mother attempted to bury her alive. Other children display the hallmarks of witch-branding - acid burns and machete scars. Uma Eke, aged 17, has been left brain-damaged after having a three-inch nail driven into her skull.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/478.html

[atreides1]

1. What was that song we used to sing in Sunday School???

I remember now "Yes Jesus Loves Me", unfortunately his followers don't!!!

[greenman3610]

2. Sarah Palin's church is supporting one of these "pastors"

who exorcised Palin of "witchcraft" a few years ago

[juno jones]

3. These are the people blessing Sarah Palin!

They are killing people in Africa, Brazil and Central America in the name of Jesus.

At the risk of being repetitious, a good primer:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/165650/170

Read everything at daily kos by Troutfishing and dogemperor. It is all there, raw primary source matrerial.

Something I put together not long ago:

They came for the witches, but I was not a witch
They came for the gays, but I was not gay,
They came for the jews, catholics, trade unionists, atheists, free thinkers, you know the mantra
Finally they came for those remaining who had assets they coveted and called them 'witches' and 'gays', etc and by golly there was no one left to refute the lies....

It's their MO and has been since the heady days of the inquisition and Malleus Maleficarium.

[Crowman1979]

4. Witches aren't the problem, it's massive evangelical breeding that's the problem!

And like Chris Rock use to say: PUT THE DICK DOWN!