PERMISSIBLE PREJUDICE:Witchchildren, Hooligan Children,Bastard Children--Evangelical Christianity in NIGERIA?

¨Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."


¨This Aug. 18, 2009 photo shows accused child witch Jerry posing for a picture on his bed at the Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network in Eket, Nigeria. Jerry was beaten by his pastor, starved, made to eat cement and then set on fire by his father as his pastor's wife cheered it on.¨

·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·

"When communities come under pressure, they look for scapegoats," said Martin Dawes, a spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund. "It plays into traditional beliefs that someone is responsible for a negative change ... and children are defenseless."


¨This Aug. 18, 2009 photo shows children accused of witchcraft carrying water at the Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network in Eket, Nigeria. The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently 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·


¨This Aug. 18, 2009 photo shows accused child witches Jane, left, and Mary, right, standing with other children accused of witchcraft at the Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network in Eket, Nigeria. Jane's mother tried to saw off the top of her skull after a pastor denounced her and Mary, 15, is just beginning to think about boys and how they will look at the scar tissue on her face caused when her mother doused her in caustic soda.¨

"It is an outrage what they are allowing to take place in the name of Christianity," said Gary Foxcroft, head of nonprofit Stepping Stones Nigeria.

·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·

read all about the tortured and murdered Child Witches of Nigeria, click HERE

¨Nigeria is one of the heartlands of abuse, but hardly the only one: the United Nations Children's Fund says tens of thousands of children have been targeted throughout Africa.¨

Anglican/Gafcon/CANA Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria

Archbishop Akinola; "Gays Produce Hooligans"

Peter Akinola, the Archbishop of Nigeria, was a recipient of the Kairos Journal Award. A press release, written by Cynthia Brust, Assistant Director of Communications for the American Anglican Council, contains this quote;

¨Homosexuality and lesbianism, like divorce, breed a society of single parents which gives rise to a generation of bastards. And in the context of much poverty and lack of education, this further produces an ill-bred generation of hooligans, portending much terror to the peace and stability of the society.

Homosexuality and lesbianism thrives on many sexual aberrations and improvisations typical of human selfishness and greed in the name of pleasure and self-actualization.¨

¨Hooligan Children¨ and ¨A Generation of Bastards¨ read it all by +Peter Akinola/Nigeria, click HERE

·Thanks to MSNBC, MSN Home
·Thanks to Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network
·Thanks to Martin Dawes
·Thanks to The United Nations Children's Fund
·Thanks to Gary Foxcroft
·Thanks to Stepping Stones Nigeria
·Thanks to Fr. Jake at the right side bar
·Thanks to Katharine Houreld, Associated Press Writer
·Thanks to Campaigners against the defamation, abuse and murdering of children in Nigeria and throughout Africa
·Thanks to Flickr Photosharing