Prosecute pastors who accuse children of witchcraft, campaigners say
Friday January 26, 2007 Dieudonne Tukala, Witchcraft
Campaigners are calling for a change in the law to make it a criminal offence to demonise a child.
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Call to tackle witchcraft pastors
Thursday January 25, 2007 Dieudonne Tukala, Witchcraft
The move comes after police told the BBC that they were unable to charge an African pastor who accused children of witchcraft in this country.
Pastor is arrested after inquiry into claims of cruelty to ‘child witches’
Friday January 13, 2006 Dieudonne Tukala, Witchcraft
A London-based pastor has been arrested on suspicion of inciting child cruelty following an investigation into allegations of witchcraft at an evangelical Congolese church in Tottenham. Dr Dieudonne Tukala, 46, from the Church of Christ Mission, is being questioned over claims that he diagnosed several children as “witches“, advising their parents to beat the devil out of them or send them back to the Democratic Republic of Congo so that he could pray for them to be killed. His arrest yesterday morning came after a BBC investigation into the belief in witchcraft within Britain’s African community. In reports broadcast on