A few weeks ago, the British documentary "Saving Africa's Witch Children" was shown on HBO2. Thepublished On a Visit to the U.S., a Nigerian Witch-Hunter Explains Herself . Here on, Christian Dem in NC posted Nigerian preacher promotes child abuse in the name of the Lord

The witchhunts in Africa are an absolute horror. Thousands of children have been abandoned or worse -- in some cases tortured, mutilated, or killed -- on suspicion of being witches.

Note that the African witch hunts are NOT purely a resurgence of indigenous African beliefs, but are influenced by today's most rapidly-growing (worldwide) form of Christianity, the independent ("nondenominational") Charismatic churches, especially the "Apostolic and Prophetic" movement within "nondenominational" Christianity. Worse yet, there are close ties between at least some African witch hunters and at least some American religious right wingers. For example, Sarah Palin was "anointed" by Thomas Muthee, an African witch hunter. And there are churches here in the U.S.A. with a similar witch hunt mentality. For example, the well-known now-disgraced former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard used to brag about having driven "witches" out of town. (About Ted Haggard, see Soldiers of Christ: Inside America's Most Powerful Megachurch by Jeff Sharlet, Harper's Magazine, November 2, 2006. This article includes the following: "He sent teams to pray in front of the homes of supposed witches -- in one month, ten out of fifteen of his targets put their houses on the market. His congregation 'prayer-walked' nearly every street of the city.")

Thomas Muthee and Ted Haggard both are or have been major leaders in the New Apostolic Reformation (as has been documented in various posts here by Rachel Tabachnick, Bruce Wilson, and others). To those here who have been researching the NAR, it would be worthwhile to examine the extent to which the problem of witchhunts in Africa is tied to the NAR networks.





