The cauldron is bubbling and the spell-books are being frantically thumbed after the national coordinator of the Traditional Healers’ Organisation, Phepsile Maseko, blamed muti murders on “heartless witches”.
“Your public allegation against witches is demonstrably false, defamatory and objectionable to real witches, who are not guilty of that which you have, on several occasions, publicly accu
Witch hunts conjure images of 17th century Salem, The Crucible and perhaps even Monty Python. They are relics of the past and today are relegated to fiction. But for thousands of women in modern-day India, witch hunts are all too real. Over the last 15 years, an estimated 2,500 Indian women have been killed because they were witches. Tons more have been beaten, tortured, forced off their land an
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has called off its Feb. 3 demand for a congressional probe of the U.S. Air Force Academy in response to a perceived insult to Christians.
League spokeswoman Susan Fani said the academy’s Catholic chaplain, the Rev. Robert Bruno, has convinced league officials that positive steps have been taken to ensure the religious liberty of all cadets.
When Mary Hudson helped form Student Pagan Information Relations and Learning nine years ago, she remembers, passersby would snicker and stare as the group performed rituals on the Quad. She said today students are more likely to quietly walk by and respect the ceremony.
“This last fall, Samhain, which is one of our great days, students were coming out of their classes, and rather than the ruck
Senate Democrats have retreated from adding new privacy protections to the nations primary counterterrorism law, as Republicans refused to lend support and portrayed the majority as willing to harm terror investigations.
Lacking the necessary 60-vote supermajority, Democratic leaders settled on a one-year extension of expiring surveillance and seizure provisions of the USA Patriot Act.
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A tiny silver badge of a boar has allowed scientists to finally pinpoint the precise spot where they believe Richard III was killed by Henry Tudor’s troops, bringing an end to more than 500 years of feverish debate among archaeologists and academics.
The miniature emblem of the Plantagenet ruler was discovered by experts from the Battlefields Trust during exhaustive excavations of the Fenn Lane
The mother of a 13-year-old Montgomery County middle school student is demanding an apology from a teacher who had school police escort the youngster from a classroom for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
The unidentified student was mocked by other children in her class and has been too traumatized to return to Roberto Clemente Middle School in Germantown, according to Ajmel Quereshi,
Pagan groups are increasingly asking for human remains and grave goods from pre-Christian burials to be returned to the ground, and their voices are being taken increasingly seriously in the museum world.
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was portrayed in court as a teenage satanist, which inflamed the community. Actually, he was a follower of Wicca — which may, in a place like West Memphis, seem interchangeable with “satanism.” Even so, that hardly makes him guilty. I’m as skeptical as
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