Posts Tagged ‘catholic church’
Witch-Hunting in Africa
Discussing Angola in 2006, The National Catholic Reporter writes that accusations of witchcraft and resultant assaults sometimes target “children suffering from diseases such as malaria and AIDS, or street children…. Between 2001 and 2005, 423 children accused of witchcraft sought refuge at the Santa Child Centre run by the Catholic Church in M’banza Congo….” According [...]
Eventually, claims of “satanic ritual abuse” would implode
around the dearth of evidence to support such claims, and the claims-makers (mental health professionals as well as the clients they directed) would learn to drop the “S” in favor of a more court-friendly framework called, simply, “ritual abuse.” The evolution mirrored the process by which the Catholic church, periodically, throughout history, learned to downplay [...]
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