Christian Burn Suspected Witches
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In Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693, nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were executed by hanging.
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Christian 'Witch' Burning
http://endofcapitalism.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/witch-burning.jpgw=490
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_Early_Modern_Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_million_witches#.22Nine_million_women.22
Even Children Are Not Safe From Christian Witch Hunts
Congo witch-hunt's child victims The sect - run by a free-thinking Congolese Bible teacher called Prophet Onokoko - has 230 children on its books. All are accused of witchcraft.
Many have been thrown out of their family homes. All will have to undergo some kind of ritual exorcism to expunge the evil spirits.
In a small room, members of the sect crowd round the two terrified Mahonda boys, praying. Eyes closed, with an air of deep concentration, Prophet Onokoko joins in with chosen words.
"Oui!" someone shouts suddenly - confirmation, it is said, that the boys are witches (or as they call them here, enfants dits sorciers).
The Prophet's eyes open and light up. He shakes Ikomba and Luwuabisa by the hand. "Yes, yes," he grins. "It is confirmed."...
Then we meet the girl, Angella, who is busy hanging washing on a line. She says she is 10 years old. Then she tells how she was treated when her parents decided their bad luck was being caused by her sorcery.
"They wanted to kill me. They wanted to throw me into a big river. They put me in a sack, ready to do it. When I escaped, they gave me shocks with an eletrical power flex."
More than 14,000 children in Kinshasa are said to have been thrown out of their homes accused of witchcraft. It is tempting to think that if Prophet Onokoko manages to remove the stigma from some of them so they can return to their families, his sect is worth its weight in gold.
Abuse Not so, says Save The Children. The organisation's representative here, Mahimbo Mdoe, has researched the world of enfants dit sorciers and is extremely worried by the work of the exorcism sects, and not least Prophet Onokoko's.
"As far as we're concerned, what's going in that organisation is purely and simply child abuse," he says.
"Children are made to vormit up things that have been inserted into them unnaturally.
"Two eyewitnesses have told us of objects like bars of soap being inserted into the anuses of children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/575178.stm
The spread of Christianity in Kenya seems to be associated with the phenomena of witch burning:
Horror of Kenya's 'witch' lynchings
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Joseph Ondieki, at the grave of his mother, who was burned as a witch
Suddenly an old woman breaks from the crowd, screaming for mercy. Three or four people go after her, beat her and drag her back, pushing her onto - what I can now see - is a raging fire.
Burned aliveI was witnessing a horrific practice which appears to be on the increase in Kenya - the lynching of people accused of being witches.
I personally saw the burning alive of five elderly men and women in Itii village.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8119201.stm
Nigeria 'child witch killer' held
Police in south-east Nigeria have arrested a man who claimed to have killed 110 child "witches".
"Bishop" Sunday Ulup-Aya told a documentary film team he "delivered" children from demonic possession.
Child rights campaigners say children are frequently abandoned, hideously injured and even murdered because their families believe they are witches.
Self-proclaimed "pastors" extort money from families to exorcise the children, but none has been charged until now.
Mr Ulup-Aya was arrested in Akwa Ibom State after a child rights campaigner led police to his church and negotiated a consultation fee for an exorcism.
He has now been charged with murder.
Five others have been arrested since the weekend and the state government says more arrests are planned
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7764575.stm
Sarah Palin Heaps Praise on a Witch Hunting Preacher
"The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.
At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial bid.
In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: "As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he's so bold. And he was praying "Lord make a way, Lord make a way."
Sarah Palin, a Pentecostal, has high praise for a "man of God" who harassed and persecuted a Kenyan woman who was accused of being a witch. No doubt, in 1692 Sarah Palin would be one of those calling for the teenage witches to be burned at the stake.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080920114557reye.nb/topstory.html
It’s not the first time Mutheee has prayed against witchcraft. He began his ministry with a witch-hunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells. According to the Christian Science Monitor, which first reported the story in 1999, Muthee publicly declared the woman "a witch responsible for the town's ills, and ordered her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave…” The woman fled.
http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=4935
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqQYedt-EU