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Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by Nobody: 6:00am On Nov 08, 2013 |
http://saharareporters.com/article/ukpabio-unrepentant-witch-hunter-re-launches-her-ministry-leo-igwe Nigeria’s notorious witch hunter, ‘Lady Apostle’ Helen Ukpabio is at it again. She has just announced a witch finding and witch delivering session tagged “Ember Months Special 2013”. The program is taking place this month (November 11-17, 2013) at the headquarters of the Liberty Gospel Church in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by Nobody: 6:02am On Nov 08, 2013 |
It's high time we stopped this nonsense. Leave witches and wizards alone. |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by pendusky(m): 6:07am On Nov 08, 2013 |
Prof Corruption: It's high time we stopped this nonsense. Leave witches and wizards alone.ur post ur reply, lol, make she kill them, even the bible said so, suffer not a witch to live... 1 Like |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by Nobody: 6:14am On Nov 08, 2013 |
pendusky:So you can kill witches? |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by Henrypraise: 6:28am On Nov 08, 2013 |
Prof Corruption: It's high time we stopped this nonsense. Leave witches and wizards alone. How can we leave dem all actors of harry porter, twilight, vampire diaries shud be directed to dis program including my math lecturer. They shud go n be exorcise. |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by pendusky(m): 11:16am On Nov 08, 2013 |
aManFromMars:no but amanfrommarsplanet, matchew |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by Nobody: 6:08am On Nov 10, 2013 |
pendusky: Stop witch hunting witches! |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by feb242: 7:52am On Nov 10, 2013 |
This is a human rights violation. False accusations of witchcraft are soon going to bring international condemnation and sanctions on Nigeria if the government doesn't begin to hold these superstitious criminals accountable for libel, slander & defamation of character. If I was a lawyer in Nigeria, I would team up with an international NGO like UNICEF or Amnesty International. Stepping Stones Nigeria is already taking up the cause of protecting victims of these terrible accusations. Nigerians need to unite & demand their elected officials condemn this foolish belief as not only a national embarrassment, but an illegal form of defamation of character. People who promote witchcraft accusations should be subject to lawsuits & criminal charges. |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by Nobody: 8:10am On Nov 10, 2013 |
In a sane society,this 'hansel and gretel' wannabe would've been committed to jail for her crimes yet she roams free and is set to embark on yet another spree of violence against children in the name of her imaginary god.....I do hope the relevant human right organizations are watching this time |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by mazaje(m): 8:18am On Nov 10, 2013 |
feb242: This is a human rights violation. False accusations of witchcraft are soon going to bring international condemnation and sanctions on Nigeria if the government doesn't begin to hold these superstitious criminals accountable for libel, slander & defamation of character. If I was a lawyer in Nigeria, I would team up with an international NGO like UNICEF or Amnesty International. Stepping Stones Nigeria is already taking up the cause of protecting victims of these terrible accusations. Nigerians need to unite & demand their elected officials condemn this foolish belief as not only a national embarrassment, but an illegal form of defamation of character. People who promote witchcraft accusations should be subject to lawsuits & criminal charges. Those in authority also share the same superstitious belief in witches and wizards. . .So its just a hopeless case. . .Is this not the same woman whose brothers were unjustly killed recently?. . .Now she wants to go around killing the kids of other ignorant and foolish people using the "word of god". . . . |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by feb242: 8:50am On Nov 10, 2013 |
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/return-to-africas-witch-children/ This documentary has a politician that was willing to speak out against her. Also stepping stones Nigeria was able to get a Nigerian soccer player to visit children accused of witchcraft. The western world is looking at this level of ignorance & having second thoughts about investing in development & infrastructure because the leaders can't be trusted to make reasonable decisions about something as foolish & childish as witchcraft, how is Bill Gates going to feel giving millions of dollars to these politicians to cure Malaria. The answer is no reasonable person would entrust their money with a politicians & leaders that believe in witchcraft. This is truly an embarrassing scourge that we need stand up, & hold our politician's accountable to eliminating http://www.crarn.net http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nigeria_50153.html http://www.steppingstonesnigeria.org |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by Nobody: 9:59am On Nov 10, 2013 |
Here's a 2010 New York Times article on the witch hunter HOUSTON — At home in Nigeria, the Pentecostal preacher Helen Ukpabio draws thousands to her revival meetings. Last August, when she had herself consecrated Christendom’s first “lady apostle,” Nigerian politicians and Nollywood actors attended the ceremony. Her books and DVDs, which explain how Satan possesses children, are widely known. So well-known, in fact, that Ms. Ukpabio’s critics say her teachings have contributed to the torture or abandonment of thousands of Nigerian children — including infants and toddlers — suspected of being witches and warlocks. Her culpability is a central contention of “ Saving Africa’s Witch Children,” a documentary that will make its American debut Wednesday on HBO2. Those disturbed by the needless immiseration of innocent children should beware. “Saving Africa’s Witch Children” follows Gary Foxcroft, founder of the charity Stepping Stones Nigeria, as he travels the rural state of Akwa Ibom, rescuing children abused during horrific “exorcisms” — splashed with acid, buried alive, dipped in fire — or abandoned roadside, cast out of their villages because some itinerant preacher called them possessed. Their fellow villagers have often seen DVDs of “End of the Wicked,” Ms. Ukpabio’s bloody 1999 movie purporting to show how the devil captures children’s souls. And some have read her book “Unveiling the Mysteries of Witchcraft,” where she confidently writes that “if a child under the age of 2 screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating health, he or she is a servant of Satan.” Visiting Houston last week to lead a four-night revival for a local church, Ms. Ukpabio, 41, had no idea that “Saving Africa’s Witch Children,” which brought protesters out to greet her in London, was about to be shown in the United States. But she was eager to defend herself. “Do you think Harry Potter is real?” Ms. Ukpabio asked me angrily, in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Express where she was staying. “It is only because I am African,” she said, that people who understand that J. K. Rowling writes fiction would take literally Ms. Ukpabio’s filmic depictions of possessed children, gathering by moonlight to devour human flesh. Still, “Saving Africa’s Witch Children” makes clear that many rural Nigerians do take her film seriously. And in her sermons, Ms. Ukpabio is emphatic that children can be possessed, and that with her God- given “powers of discernment,” she can spot such a child. Belief in possession is especially common among Pentecostals in Nigeria, where it reinforces native traditions that spirits are real and intervene in human affairs. In Nigeria, many preachers not only identify possessed children but charge dearly to perform exorcisms. To redeem their children’s souls — and to keep the child from being killed or banished by neighbors — parents scrimp or borrow to pay the preacher. Ms. Ukpabio argued that “Saving Africa’s Witch Children” exaggerates or invents the problem of child abandonment. Asked how she could be so sure, she said, “because I am an African!” In Africa, she said, “family ties are too strong to have a child on the street.” The Children’s Rights and Rehabilitation Network, a school for abandoned children run by Sam Itauma and featured in Mr. Foxcroft’s documentary, is “a 419 scam,” Ms. Ukpabio said, referring to the section in Nigeria’s criminal code that deals with fraud. She said the children’s gruesome scars and wounds, shown in the documentary, are not real — or perhaps they are real, “but there are many ways children can get maimed.” And if the injuries are the result of witchcraft accusations against the children, she said, those accusations could not have been made by Pentecostal Christian preachers, but by charlatans. Since “Saving Africa’s Witch Children” was first shown in Britain, in 2008, Mr. Itauma’s home state has adopted a law against accusing children of witchcraft. But Ms. Ukpabio went on the offensive by suing the state government, Mr. Foxcroft, Mr. Itauma and Leo Igwe, a Nigerian antisuperstition activist. In the lawsuit, Ms. Ukpabio alleges that the state law infringes on her freedom of religion. She seeks 2 billion naira (about $13 million) in damages, as well as “an order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents” from interfering with or otherwise denouncing her church’s “right to practice their religion and the Christian religious belief in the existence of God, Jesus Christ, Satan, sin, witchcraft, heaven and hellfire.” In other words, in the name of religious freedom, Ms. Ukpabio seeks a gag order on anyone who disagrees with her. The lawsuit also reiterates Ms. Ukpabio’s contention that Stepping Stones Nigeria and Mr. Itauma’s school are not charities but extortionate front organizations. According to Ms. Ukpabio, Mr. Foxcroft and Mr. Itauma aim not to educate abandoned children but “to use the said funds to blackmail.” “We’re a registered charity in the U. K., so we publish our accounts,” said Mr. Foxcroft by phone in England. “She can come in and see how much money we raised and where we spend it.” In Houston, Ms. Ukpabio reiterated that the state should close Mr. Itauma’s school. To the children living there — who, according to her, may be actors or witches, but if witches, they were not abused, and if abused, then certainly not by Christians — Ms. Ukpabio offered the services of her own church. The school “does not understand demonic possession,” she said. “If they understood, they would take the children to Liberty Gospel. “We would deliver them!” Mark.Oppenheimer@nytimes.com, markopp1 on www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22beliefs.html |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by feb242: 11:46am On Nov 10, 2013 |
Many people took offense with the NY Times for giving this woman a platform to defend the indefensible by comparing it to giving Kony an editorial piece. If Nigerian courts grant her any judicial victories the rest of the world will take note and direct their time, money & talent elsewhere. Nobody wants to enable a wayward backwards society that promotes & defends belief in witchcraft as freedom of religion. If that's the case then Kony should hire the same lawyers and file a similar appeal to justify the lords resistance army & appeal that he is also a victim of religious discrimination from the west. This is really an important opportunity for Nigeria to tell the international community that we condemn destructive superstion |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by nora544: 12:20pm On Nov 10, 2013 |
Witchcraft beliefs pre-date Christianity in Africa, African people have been engaging in witchcraft accusations and witch findings before Christian missionaries arrived the shores of the region. Christian missionaries condemned witch beliefs and practices and coerced Africans to abandoned the ‘pagan’ beliefs and embraced the Christian faith. ‘Witchcraft entrepreneurship’ has been the business of witch doctors, not Christian clerics and churches. But today things have changed. Witch finding is now the business of Christian clerics and churches, particularly Pentecostal charismatic churches. Recent cases of witchcraft related abuse in the United Kingdom have been traced to the activities of African evangelical pastors and churches. http://saharareporters.com/article/witch-hunting-and-adeboye%E2%80%99s-evangelical-tour-pacific-leo-igwe That is a big problem in nigeria with this new churches and the witchhunting but it is not only adeboye and Helen Ukpabio it is also a man who belong to the group intercessor for nigeria he is the coordinator for west africa who write in his new letters about witches and when the people should be carfully because it is witchtime so all this brings fear to the people. Most of the penecostal pastors preach about witchcraft and that has nothing to to with the bible and the christian religion and i know very soon the hole world will see what this so called great man of god make in Nigeria. |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by feb242: 1:03pm On Nov 10, 2013 |
Enoch Adeboye is another embarrassment. we need international assistance in addressing this. Education really is the only cure to supernatural superstition. We need some Nigerian celebrity support too |
Re: Ukpabio: An Unrepentant Witch Hunter Re- Launches Her Ministry by Nobody: 7:28pm On Nov 10, 2013 |
emk4lif: In a sane society,this 'hansel and gretel' wannabe would've been committed to jail for her crimes yet she roams free and is set to embark on yet another spree of violence against children in the name of her imaginary god.....I do hope the relevant human right organizations are watching this time That woman should be questioned by the Police. She should stop the vilification of hapless folks in the name of fighting witches. |
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