In Christ Other Powers Are Nothing

Uganda's leading detachable domestic news summary, The Stick to, has run a story based in part on the new Pew Religious studies Federation count again on Sub-Saharan Africa. The footer of the story is "Six Million Ugandans Clutch in Witchcraft." Currently I alike wrote in this blog about a completion story in the Tanzanian news summary This Day.I mull over it is very vast that in both Tanzania and Uganda the media put out of the Pew count again has painted the continued survival of Position African Religious studies. This is in malevolence of the fact that Pew went out of their way to reduce in size and marginalize Position African Religions, even goodbye so far as to footer the count again "Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa", even even as one of their significant finding is that spring one quarter of group surveyed "exhibited high levels of belief and practice" in Position African Religion! Pew alike includes in their count again elapsed natural environment tape that shows that the deceased of Sub-Saharan Africans were moribund allies of Position religions as towards the end as 1955.Beneath are three excerpts from Disfigure Kirumira's bring forward in The Stick to (dated April 20). Unearth how Kirumira makes no proceed of disconnection as he tastelessly denigrates Position religion and simplistically promotes Christianity. Kirumira seems to be very fearful with accusations of "child sacrifices" being carried out by traditional healers. But Uganda is individual adjacent mime to Rwanda (which at 3% has the challenge proportion of practitioners of Position religion of all the countries surveyed by Pew), and "in 1994 an indescribable darkness descended on Rwanda. The furthermost Christianized countrified in Africa became the site of its fundamental genocide. Christians killed other Christians, frequently in the extraordinarily churches everywhere they had worshiped together." That was on paper by Emmanuel M. Katongole, a Catholic priest, in the January, 2010 Sojourners Munitions store (for advanced about Rwanda, see Operate the Lord's Action in Rwanda). But now participating in are group excerpts from Kirumira's bring forward on Uganda: 1. Six Million Ugandans Clutch in Witchcraft: Deduce By Disfigure Kirumira Posted Tuesday, April 20 2010 at 00:00 KAMPALATwo out of every 10 Ugandans - about six million people - rob in witchcraft or the cynical power of sacrifices to spirits or ancestors, a price shows. The price, conducted by the US-based Pew Report Centre, notwithstanding, alike shows that Uganda is one of the furthermost holy countries in the world, with not quite nine out of 10 people saying religion (Christianity or Islam) acting a key qualities in their lives. Splendid kind and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa', the count again shows that Uganda position 15th in Africa and 20th global in the furthermost holy tables. Stick up for QualitiesThus far, the count again notes that Uganda takes beyond stigma in East Africa and 11th in Africa in the esteem of evil spirits, sacrifices to ancestors, and paying compliment to traditional holy healers. Close to one in four Ugandans rob in the cynical power of juju such as charms or amulets. In new vivacity, award has been a strong growth in the guess of child sacrifices in Uganda, common of them carried out by traditional healers (witchdoctors) and mediums to so they say help their trade attain wealth and attain. Confident 15 children and 14 adults were killed in ritual murders in Uganda outlast blind date, up from three gear in 2007, according to normalize facts. Confident 154 suspects were arrested outlast blind date in connection with ritual killings and 50 unavailable to official. The count again is the novel to put on an act how common Ugandans rob in worshipping spirits and could be helpful in helping war ritual murders. 2. According to the research that was unbound outlast week, Rwandans are the smallest amount superstitious in Africa with plainly five out of 100 people interviewed confessing they rob in juju. "Innumerable people alike say they seminar traditional holy healers equally someone in their family tree is unwilling, and generous minorities in atypical countries resist sacred belongings such as animal skins and skulls in their homes and map in ceremonies to honour their ancestors," says the count again. For example the price finds that both Christianity and Islam are wealthy in sub-Saharan Africa, the fight Christian name that neither encouragement may thicken as tightly in this spot in the vivacity brazen as it did in the 20th century, preclude perhaps low natural people conception. 3. Spare than 25,000 people were interviewed arrived the price in 19 sub-Saharan African nations from December 2008 to April 2009. In Uganda isolated, 1,000 people were interviewed; 700 Christians and 300 Muslims. The across-the-board secretary, Committee of Anglican Provinces of Africa, Rev. Leadership Daintiness Kaiso, said yesterday that the gadget is a deliberation of the Church's trouncing. "The fact that people go to witchcraft could be unavailable as a watch on the Church that it has not been well-behaved to help the worshippers twig the power of the risen Christ," he said. He said it is high time the Church reached out to such people to help them know that in Christ other powers are no one. 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