{"id":575,"date":"2007-01-25T23:13:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T23:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/01\/african-childre.html"},"modified":"2007-01-25T23:13:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T23:13:36","slug":"african-childre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/01\/african-childre.html","title":{"rendered":"African Children Accused of Witchcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still plugging away on the book, Red Letters, which is due in a week. Yes, you can pray for me.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about kicking an innocent child when they are down. I was sickened by the information that&#8217;s in this article. If it&#8217;s not enough to be orphaned because of AIDS, imagine an innocent 3 year old child being accused of bewitching his parents to death by the people in his own community. To me this is an incredible case of mass ignorance and outright evil. God help our world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/report.asp?ReportID=56725&amp;SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&amp;SelectCountry=ANGOLA#\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Click here to enlarge image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/images\/200611231.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/> \u00a9&nbsp; &nbsp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/\">M.Sayagues\/PlusNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It can take years to rehabilitate children accused of witchcraft <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>LUANDA, 13 Dec 2006 (IRIN\/<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plusnews.org\/\">PLUSNEWS<\/a>)<br \/>\n&#8211; A three-year old HIV-positive child, who was also suffering from<br \/>\nmalaria, was accused by neighbours of using witchcraft to kill his<br \/>\nparents and abandoned in a coop, where scavenging chickens pecked him,<br \/>\nblinding him in one eye.<\/p>\n<p>Other villagers, hearing of his plight,<br \/>\nrescued him and turned for help to Rev Hor\u00e1cio Caballero, of the<br \/>\nArnaldo Janssen Centre in the capital, Luanda, but the toddler died<br \/>\nwhile the paperwork was being completed for him to receive medical<br \/>\ntreatment in Spain. <\/p>\n<p>Reports of children accused of witchcraft<br \/>\nare common in parts of northern Angola: between 2001 and 2005, 423<br \/>\nchildren accused of witchcraft sought refuge at the Santa Child Centre<br \/>\nrun by the Catholic Church in M&#8217;banza Congo, the capital of Zaire<br \/>\nProvince, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),<br \/>\nwhile others fled their accusers, only to end up on the streets of<br \/>\nLuanda. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/report.asp?ReportID=56725&amp;SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&amp;SelectCountry=ANGOLA\">Read the rest of the article here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still plugging away on the book, Red Letters, which is due in a week. 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