… National Public Radio sent Wiccan priestess-reporter out to interview the man on the … kneel at them. Apparently, none of the churches in NYC are open to the public. …
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Monthly Archives: November 2008
NPR Sends Wiccan Priestess to Public Prayer Booth
November 25, 2008 – 11:30 am
… report from National Public Radio. A pagan priestess runs into the president of the atheists … story, NPR sent reporter Margot Adler, a Wiccan priestess and author of two books on … Ken Bronstein, an outspoken opponent of public religious displays. “I just happened to be walking …
Mom Loses Custody, Judges Dissent
November 24, 2008 – 3:16 pm
… points out that Judge Robert Vittitow described Wicca as “a religion, movement, cult or whatever it may be.” … your own rights as a Pagan or Wiccan parent, you may want to read …
Nigeria sees rise in number of children accussed of witchcraft
November 24, 2008 – 3:43 am
Increasingly Nigerian children accused of witchcraft are tortured, murdered or abandoned. The director of one child protection agency says the teachings of some churches are partly to blame.
“Churches have strong influence on people and some church leaders get some parents to sheepishly believe that their kids are witches and wizards. This is the focus of most of these churches, which have departed from preaching righteousness and salvation of souls to stigmatisation of children as witches and wizards.”
India puts Witchcraft on school curriculum in effort to combat superstition-related murders
November 24, 2008 – 3:19 am
A belief in witches and the evils purportedly wrought by them – from famine to sporting failure – is widespread among tribal communities in the country’s impoverished rural hinterland.
It is estimated that 750 people, mostly elderly women, have been killed in witch-hunts in the states of Assam and West Bengal since 2003.
Also: Some academics claim that witch-hunts are an economic phenomenon.
Related: 16-year-old girl was beaten to death by villagers.
Biography Channel chronicles witches, past and present
November 22, 2008 – 10:32 pm
… documentary delved into the collective history of witches. Biography Channel’s Witches chronicles the evolution of … the belief that it is not a religion, runs that deep, Cabot says. Dukakis regretted … about the fight to include pagan and Wiccan symbols on soldiers’ graves who observe those …
In Search of Good
November 22, 2008 – 9:30 pm
… faith, or to be specific, in the Wiccan tradition, it’s believed that things should be … reason mentioned above, included in my own religion. It’s based upon the principle that what … sentence. Charmed gives this romanticized view of Wicca that is quite far from the reality …
