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Witches, Druids and pagans rejoice! The Air Force Academy in Colorado is about to recognize its first Wiccan prayer circle, a Stonehenge on the Rockies that will serve as an outdoor place of worship for the academy’s neo-pagans.

Wiccan cadets and officers on the Colorado Springs base have been convening for over a decade, but the school will officially dedicate a newly built circle of stones on about March 10, putting the outdoor sanctuary on an equal footing with the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Buddhist chapels on the base.

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The issue of "child witches" is soaring in Nigeria and other parts of the world, Foxcroft said.

The states of Akwa Ibom and Cross River have about 15,000 children branded as witches, and most of them end up abandoned and abused on the streets, he said.

Christian ran away from home and wandered around for two years with other children similarly accused. He said they stole, begged for food and performed menial jobs to survive.

The plight of "child witches" is raising concern among aid organizations, including the United Nations.

"It is a growing issue worldwide, among not just African communities, but in countries such as Nepal as well," said Jeff Crisp, head of policy development and evaluation for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "We are trying to see whether it is a neglected protected issue."

Belief in witchcraft thrives worldwide. About 1,000 people accused of being witches in Gambia were locked in detention centers in March and forced to drink a dangerous hallucinogenic potion, human rights organization Amnesty International said.

In 2005, relatives of an 8-year-old Angolan girl living in England were convicted of torturing her for being a "witch," according to the Times Online.

Pastors have been accused of worsening the problem by claiming to have powers to recognize and exorcise "child witches," sometimes for a fee, aid workers said.

But some are true believers, such as one minister in Lagos, Nigeria. He pinpoints children affected by witchcraft for free, he said.

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Source: The Independent

It is a sanctuary on the vast waters of Lake Victoria, a safe haven amid a gathering storm of killings. White-skinned albinos, known here as “ghosts”, are being hunted down by their own people, harvested for body parts by those who believe they will add potency to black magic rituals.

The remote island of Ukerewe, several hours across Lake Victoria and two days overland from the capital of Tanzania, is the one remaining shelter, a place where albinos can live in relative safety.

“Life is better here on the island,” says Alphonce Kajanja. Standing in Ukerewe’s main market he is just like any other fishmonger, only his hat shades a white face with swollen liquid eyes and cracked lips. He says there have been no albino murders on the island. “People here don’t believe in this satanic campaign.”

Elsewhere, the killing continues. In the past week, two more Tanzanian albinos were murdered. Elizabeth Hussein was hacked to pieces by men with machetes in Shinyanga province last Tuesday. She was just 13. Then Ezekiel John, 47, was shot and had his arms and legs cut off near the city of Kigoma on Thursday. Their deaths bring the toll to 35 murders in just more than a year.

There is similar violence throughout east and central Africa. And even in west and southern Africa, albinos face persecution and discrimination. The campaign is being orchestrated by witch doctors who claim they can make people rich using limbs and blood from their white-skinned neighbours. In some areas, albino children go to school with bodyguards, others hide at home, and distraught relatives pile rocks on their dead loved ones to deter grave-robbers.

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Source: Telegraph

The grave, which also held 50 tortoise shells, a leopard pelvis and a human foot, is thought to be one of earliest burial sites of a shaman on archeological record and is the first of its kind found in the Middle East, said Leore Grosman, the archeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who led the excavation.

She said that the precise way the shaman, who was about 45 at the time of her death, was buried and the type of objects buried with her suggests her high standing in the community.

“Clearly a great amount of time and energy was invested in the preparation, arrangement, and sealing of the grave,” said Miss Grosman, noting the body was placed in an unusual way – laid out on its side and its legs folded inward at the knees.

It was then covered with 10 large stones, either to keep wild animals away, speculated Miss Grosman, or as part of efforts by the community to keep the shaman’s spirit inside the grave.

The shaman would have been a member of the Natufian culture that lived in the areas now recognised as Israel, Lebanon and western Jordan at the end of the Paleolithic period, a time when human society was on the cusp of transition into an agricultural age.

The organised burial site lends to the evidence of the changes their society was undergoing, said Miss Grosman.

Shamans were thought to connect between the community and the individual and spiritual entities which were often represented in animal form.

Additional objects found in the grave included the wing tip of a golden eagle, the tail of a cow, the skulls of two martens – a relative of the weasel – and the forearm of a wild bar which was placed in alignment with the woman’s left upper arm bone.

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“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”  Ephesians 6:12 

Source: Palin affair claim, ‘witchcraft’ blessing dog McCain camp | theage.com.au

The controversial choice for Republican vice-president is also the subject of a grainy YouTube video showing her being blessed in her home-town church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from “witchcraft” as she prepared to seek higher office.

The video shows Mrs Palin standing before Bishop Thomas Muthee in the pulpit of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, holding her hands open as he asked Jesus Christ to keep her safe from “every form of witchcraft”.

“Come on, talk to God about this woman. We declare, save her from Satan,” Bishop Muthee said as two attendants placed their hands on Mrs Palin’s shoulders. “Make her way my God. Bring finances her way even for the campaign in the name of Jesus … Use her to turn this nation the other way around.”

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As we said before in regards to this matter, there is evil afoot in British Columbia.

From: CNN.com

Two of five feet that have washed up on the shores of British Columbia are from the same person, but authorities believe they are a long way from solving the mystery of where they came from.
Spokeswoman Annie Linteau shows a picture of a shoe that one of the unidentified feet was found in Thursday.

Spokeswoman Annie Linteau shows a picture of a shoe that one of the unidentified feet was found in Thursday.

The British Columbia Coroners Service said Thursday that DNA tests indicate a right foot found on February 8 and a left foot found on June 16 were from the same male. The office also determined that a right foot found on May 22 belongs to a female.

But authorities still don’t know whom they belong to or how they have come to wash up on shores near Vancouver, British Columbia, in the past 12 months. Map: See where the feet were found »

Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Constable Annie Linteau said forensic examinations suggested the feet were not severed or “mechanically removed” from the bodies.

“The evidence shows that the feet were separated from their bodies by a natural process of decomposition,” Linteau said in a press conference Thursday.

Investigators have eliminated 130 people from a list of 243 missing persons, while authorities continue to examine multiple possibilities for the origin of the feet, including foul play and the chance they belonged to victims of a plane crash.

The five feet were found in running shoes. Four of the shoes were made between 2003 and 2004, according to police, and the other was made in 1999. The RCMP released photos of the shoes hoping someone can help identify the remains.

“We are asking anyone who may have had their loved one last seen wearing this particular pair of shoes to contact us immediately,” Linteau said.

What was believed to be the sixth human foot to wash up on the shores of British Columbia was determined to be a hoax last month.

Various peoples and nations have been given over to worship the gods that have been assigned to them. This fascinating tidbit, from CNN.com

It may be difficult for Western cultures to fathom, but in Western Kenya, beliefs in ghosts and witches are very real. And sometimes they have deadly consequences.

In late May, news outlets in Kenya told the story of 15 people, mostly elderly women, who were murdered in a witch hunt near the town of Kisii. The killings shocked the nation.

Villagers said more than 100 people gathered machetes and knives and stormed the village of Kegogi after midnight.

“They started banging on the doors, they broke into the house and then they killed our grandmother inside,” says Justus Bosire. “The mob was screaming and we panicked. We ran away and they came to our house and burned it to the ground.”

When Bosire returned to his grandmother’s house, he found her dead on the floor in a bed of embers. His father is missing.

“They claim that my grandmother and father were practicing witches,” Bosire says. Video Watch Bosire describe her die »

Belief in witchcraft is strong in this part of Kenya. A few days before the incident, a group of schoolchildren reportedly found a book in their school that listed all the people in the community who would soon die and the witches who would be responsible.

For Bosire and his family, the killings are hard to believe. His grandmother, Peris, was the matriarch of the family. She was 86 but still actively farmed and dispensed invaluable advice to the family.