Children are targets of Nigerian Witch Hunt

My daughter AE sent me a link to the story about Nigerian evangelical Christians torturing and killing children as WITCHES. There is also a video, but I don't know how to load it here, so I am putting the link to it and sincerely hope you'll watch it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/09/video

1 / 20 To see the gallery of pictures, go here. Click to go to the next picture.

Twin boys Itohowo and Kufre stand surrounded by angry villagers who believe they are bringing evil to their lives

Photograph: Robin Hammond/The Observer

Children are targets of Nigerian witch hunt

• Evangelical pastors are helping to create a terrible new campaign of violence against young Nigerians. Children and babies branded as evil are being abused, abandoned and even murdered while the preachers make money out of the fear of their parents and their communities
  
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  Tracy McVeigh in Esit Eket
  Sunday December 9, 2007
  The Observer
  
  
  The rainy season is over and the Niger Delta is lush and humid. This southern edge of West Africa, where Nigeria's wealth pumps out of oil and gas fields to bypass millions of its poorest people, is a restless place. In the small delta state of Akwa Ibom, the tension and the poverty has delivered an opportunity for a new and terrible phenomenon that is leading to the abuse and the murder of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children. And it is being done in the name of Christianity.

Read the rest of the article "Children are Targets of Nigerian Witch Hunt," at Guardian Unlimited.

Watch the video: Child 'witches' in Africa, and click here to see a related gallery.

When I posted the cartoon below this, I had no idea of the stark reality of the wish such children have to grow up.

How can Christianity promote such killings? Salem Witch trials but with CHILDREN!

I wish I could rant like Fran or my daughter, but I am so appalled and horrified that I am speechless.