Sentences with phrase «alleged witches»
The church burned tens of thousands of alleged witches alive to defeat the power of Satan, defend that, too, oh ye of unbounded faith.
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The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba gave the hint when she paid a courtesy call on Gambarana Yahaya Wuni, caretaker of the most popular alleged witches camp in Gambaga of the East Mamprusi district.
Alleged witches living in the Gnani Witches Camp in the Yendi municipality of the Northern Region have revealed they are...
Since 2010, the «Presby Go Home Project» of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana has successfully reintegrated 72 alleged witches into the society.
The project Manager, Sampson Laar revealed that there were 70 alleged witches still living in the camp.
Four compound houses were on Friday October 7, torched in the Nyanshegu community of the Tamale Metropolitan area, following some rioters» attempt to lynch alleged witches in the area.
Moreover, social realities such as malnutrition, pandemic plague, wars and a syphilis epidemic increased anxieties, leading to a culture of fear in which women were disproportionately scapegoated through the persecution of alleged witches.
About 400 inmates of five alleged witches camps dotted across the Northern Region are starving.
These myths include the notion that fanatical inquisitors were responsible for the execution of millions of alleged witches; that benighted medieval churchmen suppressed scientific knowledge; and that plantation economics, not Christian moral fervor, brought an end to slavery.
The leadership of the Alleged Witches Network brought this to the fore at the climax of a...
A Committee facilitating the reintegration of alleged witches and wizards camped at isolated places in the Northern Region, has revealed that reintegrating them is difficult.
«It still remains in the plans of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to disband the remaining five alleged witches» camps in the Northern Region of Ghana.»
The committee was constituted and sponsored by Action Aid Ghana to oversee the reintegration of the alleged witches.
The alleged witches were so touched by the love exhibited by Mrs Mahama that they hugged her and broke into uncontrollable weeping.
The rioters went on rampage on suspicion that some alleged witches were terrorizing and killing the youth of the community.
Executive Director of Songtaba, Hajia Lamnatu Adam in a Citi News interview explained the workshop's objective saying, «the objective of the workshop is to strengthen the capacity of the leadership of the alleged Witches Network on advocacy and lobbying, public speaking, human rights and leadership.»
The townspeople pile wood on a bonfire in the center of an abandoned church, and tie an alleged witch to a ladder which is then lowered over the flames until the victim's skin gets extra crispy.
This had been a primary pretext for the medieval purges of alleged witches and familiars, which actually had the net effect of purging whole regions of traditional healers, and of extirpating one of the first lines of community defense against disease - carrying rodents.