Recently there has been some attention regarding this subject on PNG. Last week an article came out from the local paper explaining that a witch was burned... the implication 'to death'.
Then an Australian newspaper said she was 'rescued by police'.
Today I read this paper... basically, she was burned, tortured, but survived.
http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/its-2013-and-theyre-burning-witches/558/
WARNING, this article contains nudity and graphic detail of the torture.
The reason I post it:
-This article is written from a Catholic perspective. It hits one of the issues square on the head regarding how quickly the PNG people are to blame witchcraft for something. Many PNG people still believe in witchcraft, and for good reason. Sorcery is not a lie. There are people in this country who can summon and deal with spiritual powers, but there is ALWAYS a price.
Often times that price is that people are very quick to blame sorcery for deaths of loved ones. Remember this is a culture that still have large groups who do not fully understand that clean hands, and clean water, can cure a large amount of ailments.
There is a delicate balance of science and spirit. Anything we don't understand could easily be considered 'magic', and parts of this country has a lot to learn about basic health and medicine.
It all combines to create horrible events like what this article describes above.
THESE PEOPLE truly need God's truth to change their lives.
