Post by Jaga on Dec 19, 2007 12:41:33 GMT -7
I saw this article in Polish newspaper, but it is originally from "The Guardian". This is happening now.... The religious people just went totally wrong. It is just terrible and I just do not understand how something like that happened.
Parents are told that their children are witches and they either kill them or.... something bad would happen to them. Pastors are getting richer.
Here is the article in Polish:
wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80281,4776845.html?as=1&ias=2&startsz=x
and here the fragments in English:
observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2224553,00.html#article_continue
Evangelical pastors are helping to create a terrible new campaign of violence against young Nigerians. Children and babies branded as evil are being abused, abandoned and even murdered while the preachers make money out of the fear of their parents and their communities....
...
'My youngest brother died. The pastor told my mother it was because I was a witch. Three men came to my house. I didn't know these men. My mother left the house. Left these men. They beat me.' She pushes her fists under her chin to show how her father lay, stretched out on his stomach on the floor of their hut, watching. After the beating there was a trip to the church for 'a deliverance'.
A day later there was a walk in the bush with her mother. They picked poisonous 'asiri' berries that were made into a draught and forced down Mary's throat. If that didn't kill her, her mother warned her, then it would be a barbed-wire hanging. Finally her mother threw boiling water and caustic soda over her head and body, and her father dumped his screaming daughter in a field. Drifting in and out of consciousness, she stayed near the house for a long time before finally slinking off into the bush.Mary was seven. She says she still doesn't feel safe. She says: 'My mother doesn't love me.' And, finally, a tear streaks down her beautiful face.
....
Parents are told that their children are witches and they either kill them or.... something bad would happen to them. Pastors are getting richer.
Here is the article in Polish:
wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80281,4776845.html?as=1&ias=2&startsz=x
and here the fragments in English:
observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2224553,00.html#article_continue
Evangelical pastors are helping to create a terrible new campaign of violence against young Nigerians. Children and babies branded as evil are being abused, abandoned and even murdered while the preachers make money out of the fear of their parents and their communities....
...
'My youngest brother died. The pastor told my mother it was because I was a witch. Three men came to my house. I didn't know these men. My mother left the house. Left these men. They beat me.' She pushes her fists under her chin to show how her father lay, stretched out on his stomach on the floor of their hut, watching. After the beating there was a trip to the church for 'a deliverance'.
A day later there was a walk in the bush with her mother. They picked poisonous 'asiri' berries that were made into a draught and forced down Mary's throat. If that didn't kill her, her mother warned her, then it would be a barbed-wire hanging. Finally her mother threw boiling water and caustic soda over her head and body, and her father dumped his screaming daughter in a field. Drifting in and out of consciousness, she stayed near the house for a long time before finally slinking off into the bush.Mary was seven. She says she still doesn't feel safe. She says: 'My mother doesn't love me.' And, finally, a tear streaks down her beautiful face.
....