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10,000 Albinos In Hiding After Killings In East Africa

AP | TOM ODULA | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Magig, Poverty, Albino, Albinism, Witchcraft, Africa, East Africa, Burundi, Tanzania, Albino Body Parts, Albino Murders, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya — The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa's albinos into hiding, fearful of...

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Bolivia's Witch Markets Offer Llama Fetuses And More

GlobalPost | Sara Shahriari | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Witch Hunt, Bolivia, Bolivia Market, Witchcraft, Calle De Las Brujas, World News

By Sara Shahriari LA PAZ, Bolivia -- At first sight, Calle de las Brujas doesn't look so witchy -- there are no steaming cauldrons or pointy hats. ...

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African Children Denounced As "Witches" By Christian Pastors

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Witches, Children, Africa, Witchcraft, Exorcism, Christianity, Black Magic, Nigeria, Pastors, Nigeria Apostolic Church, World News

EKET, Nigeria — The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. His family pastor h...

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Palin Pastor's Re-education Scheme "May Seem Like Totalitarianism"

Bruce Wilson | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alaska, Christianity, Rick Joyner, Sarah Palin, Wasilla, Witchcraft, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News

Palin has ties to a prominent pastor who advocates the establishment of a government regime that, in his own words, "may seem like totalitarianism" and would re-educate citizens in 'correct' decision making.

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Uganda Child Sacrifices To Become A Capital Offense

Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Africa Witches, Africa, Uganda Child Sacrifice, Foreign Affairs, Witchcraft, Africa Witch Hunt, Africa Witchcraft, Africa Child Sacrifice, Advocacy, World News

As ritualistic child sacrifices continue to rise in Uganda, lawmakers in the parliament are just now drafting a bill to make the act a capital offense...

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17TH CENTURY URINE-FILLED 'WITCH BOTTLE' Found In Greenwich

msn.com | Posted 07.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Witch Bottle, Witchcraft, Greenwhich, Home News

During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it w...

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Gambian Man, Kidnapped By Witch Hunters, Describes His Ordeal

allAfrica | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: Witch Hunt, Witch Hunters, Witch, Gambia, Witchcraft, Africa, World News

Mr. Ali Marr of Barra, a victim of the witch hunting exercise that saw the abduction of people by armed security agents and so-called witch hunters, r...

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Condoms, Witches and the Pope

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Witchcraft Africa, HIV/AIDS Africa, Pope Condoms, Condoms, Pope Benedict XVI, Witchcraft, World News

The Church and witchcraft have one thing in common: neither believes condoms will prevent the spread of AIDS.

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Five Suspected Witches Burnt To Death In Kenya

AFP | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Kenya Witches, Kenya Witchcraft, Kenya, Witchcraft, Africa, Witches, World News

NAIROBI: Five elderly people suspected of practising witchcraft were burnt to death in western Kenya, police have said. ...

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Papua New Guinea Woman Set On Fire, Witchcraft Fears Suspected

AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

Read More: Papau New Guinea Woman Fire, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea Woman Set on Fire, Papua New Guinea Witchcraft, Witchcraft, Papau New Guinea Fire, World News

SYDNEY, Australia — Police in rural Papua New Guinea said Friday they were investigating the killing of a woman who was tied to a wooden pole, s...

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Out Of Line: Witch-Crafty

Mort Gerberg | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Cartoons, Cartoon, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Witchcraft, Political Cartoons, Politics News

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Palin's Pal: A Feminist of Her Own

Adele Stan | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Claudia Gilmore, Terrorism, Witchcraft, Thomas Muthee, Abortion Clinic Bombings, Feminism, Barack Obama, Ms. Magazine, Intelligence, Phyllis Schlafly, Sarah Palin, Elaine Lafferty, Bill Ayers, Sexism, Sexism in the Campaign, The Daily Beast, Politics News

As a former Ms. staffer myself, I feel betrayed by Elaine Lafferty's stumping for Palin, who, taking advantage of an opening won by the efforts of feminists, would set back women's rights by decades.

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On Banning Books and Hunting Witches

Ronald Maxwell | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Book Banning, Witchcraft, Thomas Muthee, Salman Rushdie, Wasilla Assembly of God, Politics News

Senator John McCain has inadvertently riled some murky Alaskan back-waters. And this is a good thing, because neither book banning nor witch hunting should go unnoticed or unexposed.

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Deadly Congo Soccer Riot Sparked By Witchcraft Rumor

AP | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Congo, Witchcraft, Congo Soccer Riot, Soccer Riot Witchcraft, Witchcraft Rumor Soccer Riot, Home News

KINSHASA, Congo — Accusations that a soccer player was using witchcraft during a match in eastern Congo sparked a riot that killed 13 people, a ...

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Penis Theft Panic Hits Congo Capital

Reuters | Joe Bavier | Posted 05.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Witchcraft Africa, Penis Theft, Witchcraft, Witchcraft Congo, Witch Hunts Congo, Congo, Penis Theft Congo, Witch Hunts, Living News

Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted...

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