Protecting child ‘witches’ in Africa | Joachim Theis

Sunday, August 1, 2010 10:14
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Protecting child ‘witches’ in Africa | Joachim Theis
The persecution of children accused of witchcraft is a reaction to the insecurity of modern Africa. We must protect them Beliefs in witchcraft and other occult forces are widespread in Africa, as they are in many other parts of the world. Animist beliefs consider death, disease, crop failure and other disasters not as natural occurrences, but as the result of the activities of supernatural …

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