http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26481/witch-torture-trial-hair-cut-to-release-kindoki http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26481/witch-torture-trial-hair-cut-to-release-kindoki#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:43:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26481 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26481/witch-torture-trial-hair-cut-to-release-kindoki/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26472/witch-torture-trial-attack-on-teenager-was-feral http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26472/witch-torture-trial-attack-on-teenager-was-feral#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:41:57 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26472 Violence inflicted on a teenager accused of being a witch was "wild" and "completely feral", a witchcraft expert has told the Old Bailey.

Kristy Bamu, 15, drowned in a bath in his sister's east London flat after he was was beaten and tortured in 2010.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26472/witch-torture-trial-attack-on-teenager-was-feral/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26468/don-rimer-controversial-expert-on-occult-crimes-passes-away http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26468/don-rimer-controversial-expert-on-occult-crimes-passes-away#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:18:20 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26468 During the mid-eighties Don Rimer managed to establish himself as an internationally known authority on 'Ritual Crime and the Occult.'

Unfortunately, his work contributed to the 'Satanic Panic' hysteria of that time.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26468/don-rimer-controversial-expert-on-occult-crimes-passes-away/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26471/torture-case-couple-were-obsessed-with-witchcraft-court-hears http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26471/torture-case-couple-were-obsessed-with-witchcraft-court-hears#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:45:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26471
]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26471/torture-case-couple-were-obsessed-with-witchcraft-court-hears/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26470/boy-tortured-and-drowned-over-witchcraft-claims-court-told http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26470/boy-tortured-and-drowned-over-witchcraft-claims-court-told#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:39:57 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26470 witchcraft, a court heard on Thursday.

Eric Bikubi and Magalie Bamu, both 28, killed 15-year-old Kristy Bamu in their east London flat after violently abusing him for several days, and repeatedly attacked the victim's two sisters, whom they accused of sorcery, the Old Bailey heard on the opening day of the trial.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26470/boy-tortured-and-drowned-over-witchcraft-claims-court-told/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26235/reintegrating-ghana%e2%80%99s-witches http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26235/reintegrating-ghana%e2%80%99s-witches#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:47:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26235 Ghana’s government is looking at ways to support people accused of witchcraft - mainly women and children banished by their communities to “witches’ camps” in the north - and to reintegrate them in their home villages.

Currently around 1,000 women and 700 children are living in six camps in northern Ghana, where they have found refuge from threats and violence from people in their home communities after being labelled witches and blamed for causing misfortune to others.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26235/reintegrating-ghana%e2%80%99s-witches/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25805/warlock-allowed-to-break-curfew-during-full-moon http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25805/warlock-allowed-to-break-curfew-during-full-moon#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:04:12 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25805 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25805/warlock-allowed-to-break-curfew-during-full-moon/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25590/malawi-rights-group-pays-fines-to-free-elderly-witches http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25590/malawi-rights-group-pays-fines-to-free-elderly-witches#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:48:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25590 accused of witchcraft, AFP reports. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25590/malawi-rights-group-pays-fines-to-free-elderly-witches/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25143/russia%e2%80%99s-witches-and-wizards-face-ad-ban-to-protect-cancer-victims http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25143/russia%e2%80%99s-witches-and-wizards-face-ad-ban-to-protect-cancer-victims#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:30:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25143 witch or a wizard from advertising their services in the media in an effort to combat a controversial national obsession with the occult.

According to the Orthodox Church, Russia has 800,000 practitioners of the occult, many of whom advertise in newspaper small advertisements offering cures for alcoholism and spells to lift curses and return errant husbands for a fee.

One report claims almost one in five Russians have consulted occult ‘healers’ but MPs have warned they are risking their health and possibly their lives by trusting in such quackery.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25143/russia%e2%80%99s-witches-and-wizards-face-ad-ban-to-protect-cancer-victims/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25085/romania-will-not-tax-witches-and-fortune-tellers http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25085/romania-will-not-tax-witches-and-fortune-tellers#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:35:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25085 would have taxed witches and fortune tellers.

And the politician who pushed the plan said his colleagues caved because many of them feared being cursed.

Senator Alin Popoviciu of Romania's ruling Democratic Liberal Party drafted the legislation that also would have forced the country's thousands of witches and fortune tellers to produce receipts and would have held them responsible for wrong predictions.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25085/romania-will-not-tax-witches-and-fortune-tellers/feed 0