受巫術迷信威脅的剛果兒童

週日, 2005-08-07 10:22 — Ivy ST

非洲兒童面對的威脅和危難重重，眾所周知有貧窮與饑荒、內戰與兒童兵、性暴力問題等等。然而除此以外，剛果民主共和國（即扎伊爾）的孩子還要受大人們的迷信威脅。

BBC 報道，很多剛果兒童被認定遭邪靈附體－－剛果人稱為kindoki，危害家人（如吃人），結果被掃地出門。七歲的Maria原本在倫敦生活、上學，可是由於她的繼母認為她被邪靈附體，她被父親帶到剛果首都Kinshasa最窮困的地區、丟給那裏的親戚。其他比Maria更不幸的孩子則連棲身之所也沒有，被掃地出門後成為該國二萬街童的其中一員。

由於內戰時兒童兵的形象深入民心，兒童成為大人的恐懼對象；而且兒童總是所有社會問題的代罪羔羊。

當地的福音教會主張激烈的驅魔式，於是當人們要「拯救」家中「著魔」的孩子，就會向一些牧師救助。這些牧師為兒童作「收費驅魔」，生意滔滔；他們驅魔時或會餓那位可憐孩子幾天、甚至會火燒、毆打或性侵犯孩子。

人們如何分辨出孩子有邪靈附身？儘管那些牧師們總自稱受神啟示，當地非政府組織的負責人直截了當的指出，若孩子「太肥或太瘦、太靜或太吵、或尿床、或殘廢等，就會有危險了」；繼母常常是指責孩子被邪靈附身的人－－如果孩子不是你的而你又養不起他，他就被邪靈附身了。

資料來源：BBC: Congo's child victims of superstition By Angus Crawford

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週一, 2005-08-08 01:20 — Frostig

Oh, no!

It is too cruel! How can the prents do that? It reminds me of Cinderella. But where are the fathers? They are their own children, how can they stand all these?

No wonder some people say that women are most horrible, cruel......

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週一, 2005-08-08 09:53 — XOX

是福音派教會害人

看清楚！文中提及"當地的福音教會主張激烈的驅魔式，於是當人們要「拯救」家中「著魔」的孩子，就會向一些牧師救助。這些牧師為兒童作「收費驅魔」，生意滔滔；他們驅魔時或會餓那位可憐孩子幾天、甚至會火燒、毆打或性侵犯孩子。"

這些福音派教會牧師會餓、火燒、毆打或性侵犯孩子。而信些福音教會牧師會是誰？這些可憐孩子的父母多數是返福音教會的基督徒！

Read the news!

"There is complete silence in the packed church hall as the pastor and church elders place their hands gently on members of the congregation standing in a row at the front.

All these people believe they have been infected by an evil spirit and have come for an exorcism or 'deliverance' ceremony.

It is a ritual which is repeated every Sunday at the meeting of the Pentecostal Church of the French Christian Community Bethel (CCFB) near Harlesden in north-west London."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4596127.stm

"Add to that an explosion of evangelical Christian churches which advocate muscular - sometimes violent - exorcism, and you have a gigantic exercise in social cleansing.

"Children in Britain's African communities are being abused by parents who believe they are possessed after being told so by Christian fundamentalist pastors.

Other pastors burn, hit and sexually abuse the children. Some are killed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4727745...

"The warnings come after two women and a man were yesterday convicted of child cruelty against eight-year-old Child B, who was beaten after being accused of being a witch.

Child B, her aunt (who can not be named), Sita Kisanga and Sebastian Pinto come from Cabinda, an area in northern Angola ravaged by war. Belief in demonic possession is common and has been whipped up and exploited by Christian fundamentalist churches in the past decade."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1498947,00.html