30 Days of Advocacy against Witch-hunts in Africa 29 March to 27 April 2010
The South African Pagan Rights Alliance would like to request you to support an annual 30 day advocacy campaign against witch-hunts in Africa from 29 March to 27 April 2010.
Support The Repeal Of Canada’s Last Anti-Witchcraft Law
The purpose of this group is to bring awareness of the issue to the general Canadian public, to discuss issues surrounding the repeal of CC s.365, and to encourage individuals and groups to write to The Honourable Robert Douglas Nicholson (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada) and The Honourable Dominic Leblanc (Critic For Justice of the Liberal Party of Canada).
30 Day Advocacy Campaign against Witch-hunts in Africa
The words witch and witchcraft are used predominantly as an accusation throughout Africa, either to describe a number of clearly defined traditional religious practices that do not self-define as witchcraft, as well as a number of variable urban legends perpetuated by religious leaders, churches and traditional healers, or to identify women, children and men who are not actual Witches.
Non-Christian US Soldiers Exposed to Extremism
Below is an excerpt from a US private that has kept his name and location withheld out of fear for his wife and family. The soldier considers himself a “quiet” Muslim and has not shared his beliefs with his fellows. The letter was originally sent to Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and addresses Bible verses on rifle scopes that demonstrates why the issue matters.
Pope Not Embracing Paganism
The pope also denounced the “supposedly egalitarian vision” that human beings and other living creatures should be placed on the same plane of existence, adding that such a worldview would “open the way to a new pantheism tinged with neo-paganism, which would see the source of man’s salvation in nature alone, understood in purely naturalistic terms.”
Pagan Mother of One Gets Non-sage Council
Jemma Hawkins, 29, of the UK has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. As part of the UK health system she has been receiving regular, sometimes daily visits from mental health care visitors to help her with her condition.
However, on one of the visits the health care visitor told her that she should remove her pagan religious items from plain view and put them away in the bedroom so as not to affect Jemma’s 10 year old son.
Press release: SAPRA opposes UN & IHEU call to eliminate Witchcraft
In October 2009 the following statement on Witchcraft in Africa was presented by the International Humanist and Ethical Union to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Witchcraft: Superstition or Religion?*
In October this year a 77-year-old South African woman accused of witchcraft was burned to death in Needs Camp near East London. [1] Three other family members were forced to flee their own community for fear of being attacked as well.
Take a moment to do the right thing!
As Pagan’s we claim to be closer to the earth and all her children right? I know I may be preaching to the circle here but I just wanted to remind everyone of those that truly can’t defend themselves during hard economic times. As guardians of nature, of animals, and of our tribes/communities we should all be hero’s if we can. Remember every time you do something good you do it for us all.
