An 81-year-old woman was brutally beaten by her neighbours in Uganda, who accused her of witchcraft and blamed her for a prolonged drought. Ayder Kanyomushana, a stooped octogenarian, became the ...

NYAKITABIRE, Uganda — A drought had dragged on for months. Fields of onions, potatoes and beans went dry. Hungry and desperate, the villagers sought someone to blame. Their target? A gray-haired, ...

NAIROBI: On January 1, 1804, Haiti became the world’s first black post-colonial nation to declare independence and the only nation to do so by successful slave rebellion. The French Catholics, ...

Pakistan, July 16 -- In many parts of Africa, politics is not only a contest of policies and popularity but also a spiritual war fueled by a deep belief in witchcraft. In Uganda, aspiring leaders like ...

LUANDA, Angola, March 21 -- Tens of thousands of Angola's Catholics lined the streets of the capital Saturday for a blessing from Pope Benedict XVI, who urged the country's faithful to reach out and ...

Introduction : the evil called witchcraft / Gerrie ter Haar -- Witching-times : a theme in the histories of Africa and Europe / Stephen Ellis -- A phenomenonology of witchcraft in Ghana / Abraham ...

Two men are on trial in Zambia on charges of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country's president, in a case that has become a source of fascination in the southern ...

Introduction to Pentecostal witchcraft and spiritual politics in Africa and Melanesia / Knut Rio, Michelle Maccarthy and Ruy Blanes -- German Pentecostal witches and communists : the violence of ...

NYAKITABIRE, Uganda (AP) — A drought had dragged on for months. Fields of onions, potatoes and beans went dry. Hungry and desperate, the villagers sought someone to blame. Their target? A gray-haired, ...