As if being born in Africa wasn't hard enough..

[Thor]

This is really messed up:

'Child-witches' of Nigeria seek refuge'


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ek-refuge.html

some quotes from article:

Mary is a pretty five-year-old girl with big brown eyes and a father who kicked her out onto the streets in one of the most dangerous parts of the world. Her crime: the local priest had denounced her as a witch and blamed her "evil powers" for causing her mother's death. Mary was found by a British charity worker and today lives at a refuge in Akwa Ibom province with 150 other children who have been branded witches, blamed for all their family's woes, and abandoned. Before being pushed out of their homes many were beaten or slashed with knives, thrown onto fires, or had acid poured over them as a punishment or in an attempt to make them "confess" to being possessed. In one horrific case, a young girl called Uma had a three-inch nail driven into her skull.

Mrs Ukpabio, a mother of three, also wrote a popular book which tells parents how to identify a witch. For children under two years old, she says, the key signs of a servant of Satan are crying and screaming in the night, high fever and worsening health - symptoms that can be found among many children in an impoverished region with poor health care.
The preacher says that her work is true to the Bible and is a means of spreading God's word. "Witchcraft is a problem all over Nigeria and someone with a gift like me can never hurt anybody," she says. "Every Nigerian wants to watch my movies." She denies that her teachings and films could encourage child abuse

[rubecube]

Religion is wonderful.

[Cheese]

enjoy

and NSFW

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Religion is wonderful.

Nigeria is wonderful. Take a highly religious society like Poland, and I bet you would rarely see this kind of behaviour.

The fact of the matter is, Nigeria is hellhole full of murder for politcal, economic and religious purposes.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Nigeria is wonderful. Take a highly religious society like Poland, and I bet you would rarely see this kind of behaviour.

The fact of the matter is, Nigeria is hellhole full of murder for politcal, economic and religious purposes.

Today's Poland of course yes, but go back a few hundred years..

My reaction to the article is more about wow, this is still going on, rather than oh those crazy religious.

You'd think witches and demon's would be part of history now, but Africa has a long way to go.

[Thor]

Haha Cheese those were awesome, thanks for posting those.