Nigeria Human Rights Groups Waged War Against Renewed Witch-hunting

A group of Nigerian and International Human Rights groups have called for support from people across the world to help put a stop to renewed witch-hunting in Cross River State, Nigeria. The call has come in response to the launch of a new crusade by renowned pastor – Lady Apostle Helen Ukpabio – entitled “Witches on the Run”.

Ukpabio has received severe criticism in recent years for promoting the belief that children can be witches with evidence linking her church to horrific cases of child abuse in this region. In 2009 and 2010 she unsuccessfully sued child rights groups working to protect such children and sent her supporters to beat up human rights activist– Leo Igwe – when he organised a conference to raise awareness of these abuses.

Aside from preaching about the existence of child witches in her churches, Ukpabio has also produced a number of books and nollywood films on this issue. In one of her books, ‘Unveiling The Mysteries of Witchcraft’, she states that: “If a child under the age of two screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating health he or she is a servant of Satan”.

According to Gary Foxcroft, Executive Director of the Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN): “What Ukpabio fails to mention in her teachings is that such health symptoms are common in Southern Nigeria, which has high rates of malaria and other health challenges. Her latest crusade on this issue highlights her desire to continue to exploit the weak and vulnerable. We call upon people around the world to contact the Cross River State Government and urge them to take action to stop this latest witch-hunt.”
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It is hard to believe in this day and age that something like this would be a problem. I just can’t understand how anyone could take part in this or be brainwashed to be part of it but somehow it’s happening.

It’s sick.

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It is hard to believe in this day and age that something like this would be a problem. I just can’t understand how anyone could take part in this or be brainwashed to be part of it but somehow it’s happening.

It’s sick.

Go grab a bag of leafy vegetation and walk down main street in any US city. You will soon learn witch burning never really went away.

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It’s sick.

it's much worse
all these "christian" preachers/missionaries
are being funded by western nations, particularly the u.s.
all part of much larger genocidal agenda

why?

allow "doctor death" kissinger to explain it:

On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as national security adviser (the same post Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush administration), was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, and agriculture.

The bogus arguments that Kissinger advanced were not original. One of his major sources was the Royal Commission on Population, which King George VI had created in 1944 “to consider what measures should be taken in the national interest to influence the future trend of population.” The commission found that Britain was gravely threatened by population growth in its colonies, since “a populous country has decided advantages over a sparsely-populated one for industrial production.” The combined effects of increasing population and industrialization in its colonies, it warned, “might be decisive in its effects on the prestige and influence of the West,” especially effecting “military strength and security.”

NSSM 200 similarly concluded that the United States was threatened by population growth in the former colonial sector. It paid special attention to 13 “key countries” in which the United States had a “special political and strategic interest”: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. It claimed that population growth in those states was especially worrisome, since it would quickly increase their relative political, economic, and military strength.

For example, Nigeria: “Already the most populous country on the continent, with an estimated 55 million people in 1970, Nigeria's population by the end of this century is projected to number 135 million. This suggests a growing political and strategic role for Nigeria, at least in Africa.” Or Brazil: “Brazil clearly dominated the continent demographically.” The study warned of a “growing power status for Brazil in Latin America and on the world scene over the next 25 years.”

www.schillerinstitute.org...

NSSM200

boncho
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It is hard to believe in this day and age that something like this would be a problem. I just can’t understand how anyone could take part in this or be brainwashed to be part of it but somehow it’s happening.

It’s sick.

 

Go grab a bag of leafy vegetation and walk down main street in any US city. You will soon learn witch burning never really went away.

indeed,
the whole war on drugs/terror has too many similarities and parallels with the inquisitions and burning times to be coincidence.

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Very near the same point I was going to make. Western imperialism didn't stop destroying Africa after the industrial revolution ended and neither did the Church stop.

Africa is one of the last frontiers for extreme Christian churches to find ears that will listen to them. They feel they lost the war in the west yet there are Africans just over the pond who will get baptized if you give them a bottle of clean water. The churches in Africa are basically a glimpse of what would happen in the western world if Christian dominion law or Shariah law took over.

This is why they rape and then murder gay men. This is why they rape and then burn little girls. This is why they kill people that are deemed "evil" by the institutions that ensure they have food even though that same western culture is what put them in that position hundreds of years before.