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10 Evangelicals Arrested After Killing 7 During Violent Exorcism Rituals
Patheos
January 17, 2020
Authorities in Panama report 10 evangelicals have been arrested for the murder of six children and one adult, and the torture of 14 others, during violent exorcism rituals.
Prosecutors in Panama say they have found the corpses of six children and one adult in a clandestine burial pit where a sect had tortured indigenous people in exorcism rituals.
Prosecutors said Thursday the dead minors ranged in age from one to 17, and that the adult was a pregnant woman who was the mother of five of the kids.
Prosecutors in Panama have found the corpses of six children and one adult in a clandestine burial pit where a religious sect was found torturing indigenous people in exorcism rituals.
Prosecutors said the victims ranged in age from one to 17, and that the adult was a pregnant woman who was the mother of five of the children.
The pit was found at a remote camp near the Caribbean coast where on Wednesday police arrested 10 members of an evangelical sect known as “The New Light of God”.
According to reports, 10 “lay preachers” from “The New Light of God” church were arrested and are accused of staging violent and sometimes deadly exorcism rituals where indigenous peoples were asked to “repent or die.”
Panama prosecutor Rafael Baloyes said the members of the evangelical church targeted the remote Ngabé Buglé indigenous community near the Caribbean coast. Describing the horror, Baylores said:
They were performing a ritual inside the structure. In that ritual, there were people being held against their will, being mistreated.
All of these rites were aimed at killing them, if they did not repent their sins.
According to reports, members of the Ngabé Buglé indigenous group “had been tied up and beaten with wooden cudgels and Bibles” in an effort to make the indigenous people convert and repent during the exorcism rituals.
That’s right, these deranged Christians were literally bashing people with Bibles, killing them with Bibles.
Can you feel the Christian love?
Bottom line: 10 evangelicals have been arrested for the murder of six children and one adult, and the torture of 14 others, during violent exorcism rituals in rural Panama.
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