Tag: Withcraft
Churches Involved in Torture, Murder Thousands of African Children Denounced as Witches
by Katharine Houreld October 17, 2009.
Print: Los Angeles Times
The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently in Nigeria, partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria’s 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire
