"Churches in Nigeria denounce children as witches" by Katharine Houreld, Associated Press | November 1, 2009
EKET, Nigeria - The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity....
The Nigerian church is a branch of a Californian church by the same name. But the California church says it lost touch with its Nigerian offshoots several years ago. “I had no idea,’’ church elder Carrie King said by phone from Tracy, Calif. “I knew people believed in witchcraft over there, but....’’
I really don't know what to make of this one.
The Mount Zion Lighthouse - also named by three other families as the accuser of their children - is part of the powerful Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria. The Fellowship’s president, Ayo Oritsejafor, said the Fellowship was the fastest-growing religious group in Nigeria, with more than 30 million members. “We have grown so much in the past few years we cannot keep an eye on everybody,’’ he explained....
Not even your own flock?
Nigeria is a center for this type of abuse, but hardly the only one: The United Nations Children’s Fund says tens of thousands of children have been targeted throughout Africa....
Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members....
Nwanaokwo said he knew the pastor who accused him only as Pastor King. Mount Zion Lighthouse in Nigeria at first confirmed that a Pastor King worked for them, then denied that they knew any such person....
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Maybe it's all true, but after all the lies I'm having a hard time choking this one down. readers. And what possessed the racist, Zionist War Daily to pick THIS ARTICLE above all others to print in its newspaper? Nothing else going on in Nigeria? I mean, what about the oil, right?
