Showing posts with label Christian/Evangelical Child Abuse in Nigeria. Show all posts
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Oct 19, 2009

PREJUDICE·PREACHING·PRETENDING: This weeks sadly abusive/un-holy crimes at Church; UPDATED with RC POACHING!

IS THERE NO END TO THE MISCHIEFMAKING and PANDERING?

The Most Reverend John J. Myers, J.C.D., D.D. Fifth Archbishop of Newark

In 2005, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Myers as Ecclesiastical Delegate of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the Pastoral Provision for admitting married former Anglican clergy to the Catholic priesthood in the United States...¨

BREAKING NEWS for ANGLICANS who wish to ENTER FULL COMMUNION with the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH:

¨Pope Benedict XVI has approved, within the Apostolic Constitution, a canonical structure that provides for Personal Ordinariates, which will allow former Anglicans to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of distinctive Anglican spiritual patrimony.¨ ·Joint Statement by The Archbishop of Westminster and The Archbishop of Canterbury· UPDATED TODAY October 20, 2009! read it all, click HERE

¨...Between 1966 and 2008, he served as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, part of the Roman Curia responsible for helping the Holy Father, the supreme legislator of the Church, interpret the laws of the church.¨

·HARK! HE HELPETH THE POPETH AND INTERPRETH LEGISLATIVE TEXTS FROM PARTICULARETH COUNTRIES and JURISDICTIONS·

¨The Council further assists the Holy Father in the correct application of current law and the interpretation of norms for particular countries and jurisdictions.¨

Pope Benedict XVI

·HARK! THE POPETH PROMOTETH· (again)

¨In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI named him a Member of the Pontifical Council.¨

·HARK! HARK! HE KICKETH OUTETH AND REMOVETH (six years after the conviction of Father Michael Fugee was overturned)·

OCTOBER 19,2009/BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: ¨The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Father Michael Fugee removed by Archdiocese of Newark, saying they just learned of his 2003 molestation conviction.¨ (even though Fr. Michael Fugee´s ¨conviction¨ had been overturned in 2003?).

·REVIEWTH FOR YOURSELFETH·

¨A Roman Catholic priest was convicted here today of one charge and acquitted of another in a sexual abuse case involving a teenage boy in his parish in 1999 and 2000.

After a day of deliberations and three days of trial testimony, the jury found the priest, the Rev. Michael Fugee, former assistant pastor of St. Elizabeth Church in Wyckoff, guilty of a charge that he brushed his hand over the youth's crotch during four brief wrestling sessions in the boy's home during the two-year span. The charge, aggravated criminal sexual contact, carries a possible prison sentence of three to five years, but it does not require a jail sentence for those with no prior criminal convictions. In the other part of the verdict, returned about 6 p.m., the jury found Father Fugee not guilty of endangering the welfare of a minor.¨ read all the information regarding the conviction of Reverend Michael Fugee that was published in The New York Times: Saturday, April 12, 2003, by Robert Hanley, click HERE

Juror in Priest Case Expresses Misgivings About the Verdict

¨An hour before the verdict was reached, 8 of 12 jurors believed that there was not enough evidence to find Father Michael guilty,¨ the juror wrote of deliberations on April 11. ¨Somehow, a split decision was negotiated and I felt undue pressure by the jury to conform.¨read all the information regarding the ¨doubt of guilty conviction¨of Reverend Michael Fugee, published in The New York Times: Wednesday, June 4, 2003, by Robert Hanley, click HERE

¨The priest's supporters were in shock. Debra McDonald, of Franklin Lakes, whose son, Anthony, was a character witness in the case, said the priest had become the victim.¨

"Timing is everything and this came up in a climate fraught with anxiety over the church," McDonald said.


"But this is a man, not a church," McDonald said. "An innocent man." read it all, click HERE

and then:

By CAROLYN SALAZAR, STAFF WRITER
Date: 07-17-2007, Tuesday
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions

Michael Fugee, whose criminal sexual contact conviction in 2003 was overturned on appeal, qualified for Pretrial Intervention, a special form of probation that would leave him with no record if he follows certain conditions. (Which Father Fugee agreed to)

·SO ENDETH THE MESSINESS AND UNSEEM-LIE-TH HUMAN AWKWARDNESS FOR VARIOUS OTHERETH ORTHODOX-LIKETH ODDS AND ENDS THAT *APPEAR* TO PURIFYETH/READYETH FOR THE HOMOPHOBE/HETEROSEXUAL MISOGYNIST (ANTI-FEMALE) PRIESTHOOD/EPISCOPAL RC/ANGLICAN AGENDA·

Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Church of England, ¨First Amongst Equals¨ at The Anglican Communion

Vatican moves to poach traditional Anglicans ¨Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, admitted he had been caught unawares¨ Oh dear, read it all HERE (¨unawares¨ indeed)

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NEW ZEALAND: The Exclusive Brethren Church is being rocked by accusations that it has covered up a "plague" of sexual abuse in its ranks.

Last week a former member of the church, 74-year-old Clive Allen Petrie, was found guilty in Nelson of nine counts of indecently assaulting girls under 12 and one of inducing a girl under 12 to do an indecent act on him. The case involved four girls, three in the 1950s and 60s, and the fourth in the 1980s.

Former church member Neville McCallum, who last week sent a letter to all 1900 Brethren households in New Zealand about alleged crimes and cover-ups within the church, says the Nelson case "is only the tip of the iceberg". And one of the four women assaulted by Petrie told the Sunday Star-Times there were many other cases of sexual abuse in the church. read it all, click HERE

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Pentacostal Church Pastor Obiri Kojo Yeboah

Uganda: Pastor Obiri Kojo Yeboah arrested for fraud for wearing a hidden electrical device to deceive parishioners into thinking his touch was slaying them in the Lord. Bonus: The Pentacostal Church is outraged at faked miracle healing.

¨There has been a massive growth in churches set up by charismatic preachers in Africa in recent years, amid fears some could be fraudsters.

The pastor told the BBC that during his prayers, members of the congregation "act as the spirit comes in them".

The website of the company Yigal Mesika, which makes the "Electric Touch" machine, among other magic tricks, says: "Charge a spoon, keys or coins and watch as it shocks a volunteer!

"They will believe you have supernatural powers! read it all, from the BBC, click HERE

¨Uganda's Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo has asked police for a report into the activities of churches, such as Mr Obiri-Yeboah's We Are One ministry, following several charges of impropriety.

"We feel there is a need for a policy on religion," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme.

Nsaba Butro denied the government was interfering in people's private lives.¨


UGANDAN GOVERNMENT DOESN´T INTERFER IN CITIZENS PRIVATE LIVES?

¨Cheating¨is a larger problem in Uganda for Public Morality and Ethics Minister Mr. Nsaba-Buturo than waging HIS costly anti-LGBT Conference and organizing a ongoing hatecampaign. Nsaba-Buturo has initiated a ¨Witch Hunt¨ seeking out everyday LGBT innocent citizens at all levels of Ugandan life. However, working toward putting a STOP to Human Sacrifices, Rampant Corruption at Public Institutuions, Prostitution and Domestic Violence, doesn´t seem to be a priority. Secretary Buturo apparently doesn´t know the difference between ´morals, ethics´ and ´human rights´ or plain murder, theivery, common deceit, BIGOTRY and witchcraft.

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Churches involved in torture, murder of thousands of African children denounced as witches in NIGERIA and beyond

This Aug. 18, 2009 photo shows children accused of witchcraft waiting for food 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.

EKET, Nigeria (AP) — ¨The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.

His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him — Mount Zion Lighthouse...

...A month later, he died.¨ read it all, click HERE

·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 more, click HERE

·Thanks to By Anthony Hubbard, Sunday Star Times, NZ
·Thanks to This Week In Holy Crimes, right sidebar
·Thanks to BBC News
·Thanks to The Star-Ledger, Bergen, New Jersey
·Thanks to Carolyn Salazar, The Record, Bergen, New Jersey
·Thanks to The Los Angeles Times
·Thanks to Katharine Houreld, Associated Press
·Thanks to John Tugume, Tabu Butagira & Patricia Walaga/Uganda
·Thanks to Monitor Online/Uganda
·Thanks to Wounded Bird, at the right sidebar
·Thanks to Anglican Communion News
·Thanks to The Times Online, UK
·Thanks to Ruth Gledhill and Richard Owen
·Thanks to Mark Harris, Preludium, right sidebar
·Thanks to Of Course I Could Be Wrong, Mad Priest, right sidebar
·Thanks to Friends of Jake, IT, right sidebar

Oct 17, 2009

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