EXORCISM DEATH TOLL RISES WHILST THE AUTHORITIES BUMBLE

Yet another tragic SAFF prophecy has come true with the death of poor Kyhra Ishaq who was apparently starved to death by her fanatical parents because they believed she was possessed by an evil spirit.

This is how the Sun reported it:

Seven Years ago (see full report in right-hand column) we alerted the public, and the authorities to the growing number of persecutions of children by spiritual fanatics from Christianity and Islam but to their undying shame the child scare industry was too busy chasing phantom Satanists and occupying police time with bogus cases.

Four years later the decrepit media of the U.K. began to see we were right and began looking at the issue, but typically, the Othodoxy Blind-Spot kicked in and the Media blamed it all on West African 'Jungle Ju-Ju' portraying radical Christian and Islamic ministers as 'Witch-doctors' instead of Christians and Moslems who were viciously re-interpeting their Holy Books.

The cry went up!
'Save the Witch-Children'

They didn't cry 'Save the Kids from twisted self-styled Christian Pastors'.

They didn't cry 'Why are Christian and Moslem Leaders allowing religious radicals to abuse and kill children in the name of their religions?'

And so the torture and abuse was yet again swept under the carpet whilst the-powers-that-be wait for another shedload of dead kids to pile up before they do something about it.

The SAFF has tracked the growth of fundamentalist fanaticism from the main orthodox religions for over twenty years. We were the FIRST to campaign against the mammoth hidden abuse by Priests and the Clergy (see here) which was institutionally covered up and hidden from the public's view in favour of chasing the phantom of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse which, in the course of time, turned out simply to be a smoke-screen to hide the ugly excesses of child abusing priests and pastors.

We named and shamed the major religions twenty years ago and they did nothing. Over the past ten years thousands of cases have come to light in the U.S. and in Ireland where recently an official report (The Ryan Report) roundly condemned the Irish Government and the Irish Catholic Church for actually colluding to hide unbelievable numbers of cases of the priestly abuse of children from the public.

It is now absoutely impossible for any Christian to deny that these things happen or deny that Clergy Abuse is an endemic problem. Many hundreds of those kids need not have suffered if the authorities had listend to what we were saying but the British Establishment is so shot through with prejudice and bigotry that they would sooner give millions of pounds worth of taxpayers money to activists in the Child Scare Industry who repay their benfactors by promoting fictional ideas about irrational enemies of the State. The Devil Made Them Do it!

What did the Church of England do when we aimed our campaign squarely at them? They started a countrywide campaign to try to ban Halloween because they say it is 'dangerous' to children! Ha! Kids being killed by Christians under their noses and they prefer to harrangue Halloween. You get the picture. Their attitude, and the attitude of the media in Britain today is nothing short of despicable, yet only the SAFF has the courage to tell the truth and here it is:

If just ten percent of the resources that the Child Scare Industry has thrown at the phantom of Satanic Ritualised Child Abuse were diverted to unearthing despicable men and women who disguise their evil by passing it off as justified by the Bible or the Koran we could erradicate cases like poor Khyra Ishaq and probably save the lives of hundreds of children almost overnight.

Instead I suppose we are going to have to put up with the usual hypocritical spectacle of a public enquiry where the government, the social services, the child charities and the media conjoin in a communal wailing and gnashing of teeth to produce yet another set of revamped guidelines which social workers will ignore as quickly as the last.

Hello! Is anyone listening?

John Freedom Mortlake Summer Solstice 2009ev


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Daily Mail Headline 3 October 2011

A Muslim woman disemboweled her daughter as a sacrifice to God after she became convinced the four-year-old was possessed by spirits, the Old Bailey heard. Shayma Ali, 36, stabbed the girl up to 40 times and took out her liver while Koranic verses played in the background.

When police arrived at their east London home, Ali was heard chanting: 'I seek refuge in God from the curse of Satan'.

Shayma Ali admitted stabbing her daughter and cutting out her liver to 'exorcise evil spirits' Ali was found covered in blood rocking back and forward in the lounge of her home, with the child's liver on the carpet.

She had become obsessed that the child was possessed by a Jinn, a spirit referred to in the Koran which can occupy humans and animals.

Duncan Atkinson, prosecuting, said Ali had become an increasingly devout follower of Islam after a trip to Egypt in 2009.

'She became particularly pre-occupied by the idea of possession by a thing call a Jinn ... and she talked constantly about evil spirits and the belief that her daughter was possessed. Atkinson told the Old Bailey Ali became increasingly obsessed with exorcising the evil spirits....she 'talked constantly about evil spirits' and the belief that her daughter was possessed.

Ali later told a psychiatrist she had been praying when she began to think about sacrificing a child 'as proof of her love of God'.

Source: Daily Mail

Fundamentalist agitators invent the satanic scares from religious psychoses. Therapists and the child-scare industry jump on the bandwagon for an easy hit and encourage the fantasies. The Xist British Media dutifully exaggerate the shock-horror cases whilst cynical politicians wring their hands in despair on the sidelines...... and all the while, quietly in the background the intellectual poison produced by their wicked minds preys on the religious psychotics who have been failed by the mental health system. Dangerous people who take on board the lies and irresponsible portrayals of the Satan Hunters, ready to justify butchering their four year old children in the name of their god in a catharsis which could have been easily avoided if the corrupt journalists of the British Media had only limited themselves to their professional duty. The popularisation of exorcism by the BBC Everyman team has left a legacy which will claim many more victims yet.....and not a witch or satanist in sight......

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Woman killed son in botched exorcism then kept his body in plastic bag to be resurected

Latisha Lawson choked her son Jeziah to death 'to exorcise the devil in him' Latisha Lawson, 31, forced her two-year-old son Jezaih to drink a vile mixture of olive oil and vinegar as part of a ritual to drive the devil from his body. As he choked on the liquid she held her hand over his mouth to stop him vomiting and crushed his neck. Jurors heard Lawson had wanted to drive a demon named as "Marzon" from her son's body.

She had become convinced that her son was possessed and blamed herself because she did not profess her love for God while she was pregnant.

Police said Lawson kept Jezaih's body in a plastic sack for more than a year after his November 2009 death until she was arrested. Lawson said she was convinced her son was possessed by demons as his behaviour had changed. "I knew and believe I was interacting with a demon at that time," Lawson said. She said she kept her son's body as she was convinced her son would be resurrected after his death "I went in and just asked God to bring him back," she said. "He did it in the Bible. He did it with Lazarus. He did it with a child in the Bible."

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Carry On Judge!

See How Hysterical Religiosity Infects The British Legal System. Now any crime can be excused if you say you are possessed. (see here)


More Cases of lunatic exorcism below. Does the BBC condone this too? Where are the people at Everyman who promoted this evil?


Daily Telegraph (Filed: 22/09/2006)

Exorcism priest denies murder :  By Michael Leidig in Vienna

A priest and four nuns have pleaded not guilty to murdering a young nun who  was strapped to a crucifix with a cloth in her mouth during a five-day crucifixion ritual.

Father Petru Corogeanu and sisters Nicoleta Arcalianu, Adina Cepreaga, Simona Bardanas and Elena Otel told the court in Vaslui, eastern Romania,  yesterday that they had performed the exorcism at the Tanacu Monastery to try to help 23-year-old Irina Cornici. They said at the time that she had been possessed by Satan.

It emerged after her death that Cornici had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic.   Father Corogeanu told the court that the exorcism ritual was "quite normal"  and blamed medics who attended to Cornici for her death. He has been excommunicated.

Evangelist Church Leader Tortures 10 Year Old Daughter Daily Mail 04th December 2009

An evangelist church leader who tortured his 10-year-old daughter and kept her prisoner for four days with no food because he was convinced she was a witch was jailed for eight-and-a-half years today. The twisted 39-year-old, dripped boiling hot plastic over his terrified daughter's feet and beat her senseless after she became 'possessed by evil spirits'.

'She did not even have a bed to sleep on. You bound her, you gagged her, you beat her, you whipped her and then kept her prisoner with no food.

The court heard the girl's hands were so badly burned after being held over a candle the blisters protruded two inches out from her palms. On another occasion the man cut his daughter's shoulder with a knife and smashed her head against a wall before standing on her face.

The man sat impassively in the witness box and at points laughed when the crimes against his daughter was read out.


CHURCH MEMBERS JAILED AFTER EXORCISM KILLS TEEN

A French Guyana court has sentenced four members of the Celestial Church of Christ on Wednesday for performing an exorcism on an epileptic teen in 2005 that ended in his death. Bosse was tortured for three days by church members, who slapped him, beat him with reeds and straps and he was attached to a cross for the final two nights before his death.

Bosse's mother, approached church members at the end of 2004 in order to get treatment for her son, who she considered "possessed by the devil." They decided to exorcise him.

The head of the parish, Maurice Sainte-Pierre, discovered him dead, gagged, and still attached to the cross. The autopsy revealed multiple bruises, a large hematoma over one eye and blows to the head.

Sainte-Pierre was sentenced to 12 years in prison, while the others were handed down sentences of 9, 7 and 3 years, including two with suspended sentences. The Celestial Church of Christ was founded in Benin in 1947, and claims millions of followers worldwide. Source:

Preacher Guilty In Boy's Exorcism Death

By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express July 9, 2004 MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN--After deliberating just four hours, a jury convicted Ray Anthony Hemphill with felony physical abuse of a child causing great bodily harm in the suffocation death of 8-year-old Terrance Cottrell Jr.

The boy's father told reporters the ruling was "minor justice", adding that he thought prosecutors should have charged Hemphill with manslaughter or murder.

Ray Hemphill, 47, was ordained as a pastor of the Faith Temple Church of the Apostolic Faith. Hemphill told police on the night of August 22, 2003 that he had been holding a series of special prayer services, described by some as exorcisms, over the previous three weeks to remove "evil spirits" of autism from Cottrell. Hemphill, who weighed 157 pounds, described how he would sit or lay on "Junior's" chest for up to two hours at a time, whispering into the boy's ear for the "demons" to leave his body.

Baby Killed in Baptism Ceremony

A priest has been accused of drowning a six-week-old boy as he baptised him in Moldova. Witnesses claimed the baby died after Father Valentin failed to cover his mouth and nose when he immersed him in water three times. Film shot by relatives shows the youngster moving after being taken out of the font, but then suffering difficulty breathing as he is dressed. Twenty minutes later, he started bleeding from his nose and mouth and died. Source:

Six Year Old Girl Killed During Exorcism

Sixth Child Death due to Exorcism in past few years ATLANTA, Jan. 20, 2004 Exorcism Suspected In Child Death 6-Year Old Found Severely Beaten, Stabbed, Strangled In Atlanta

By John Esterbrook

(CBS/AP) A 6-year-old girl found dead in a motel room had been strangled, stabbed, beaten and covered in pages torn from a Bible, possibly in an attempt to "undemonize" her, police said Tuesday.

Christopher Carey, 29, and his wife Valerie, 27, were charged with murder. The husband was later transferred to jail.

The older child provided detectives with information that led investigators to the motel where the 6-year-old was discovered, police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley said.

Quigley said the adults indicated they were conducting a ritual that "had something to do with undemonizing the child."

If the girl was the victim of an exorcism, hers would be at least the sixth such death in the past nine years.

  • On March, 8, 1995, Kyung-A Ha, 25, was beaten severely during a night-long exorcism conducted by members of the Jesus-Amen Ministries in San Francisco. Kyung Jae Chung was killed in a July 4, 1996 exorcism in Los Angeles.

  • In 1997, a 5-year old girl in Bronx, N.Y., was forced to drink a mixture of ammonia, pepper, vinegar and olive oil because her mother and grandmother thought she was possessed. Gagged with duct tape, she died.

  • Charity Miranda, a teenager from Long Island, N.Y., was suffocated in a plastic bag by her mother and sister during a ceremony in 1998. Terrance Cottrell, an 8-year-old, was beaten to death during an attempted exorcism in Milwaukee last September.

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Wisconsin jury: Father guilty in prayer death caseBy ROBERT IMRIE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

A central Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.

Dale Neumann, 47, was convicted in the March 23, 2008, death of his daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. Prosecutors contended he should have rushed the girl to a hospital because she couldn't walk, talk, eat or drink. Instead, Madeline died on the floor of the family's rural Weston home as people surrounded her and prayed. Someone called 911 when she stopped breathing.

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Cops probe whether exorcism caused Va. teen death THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CENTREVILLE, Va. -- Police in Virginia are investigating whether a Korean-American teenager's death last year was caused by a religious ritual in her family's home.

Eighteen-year-old Rayoung Kim of Centreville died in July 2008 of blunt force trauma, according to medical examiners, and her death was ruled a homicide.

According to court records, Kim's brother told Fairfax County Police that family members and others had been performing a religious ritual on Kim before she lost consciousness.

Kim's father declined to comment on whether an exorcism had been performed.

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Five and Eight Year Old Exorcised to Death By Christian Pastor

Children die in religious rite: Tuesday 14 February 2012 00:53

South Korean police have arrested a 43-year-old church pastor and his wife who confessed to beating their three young children to death in an attempt to cleanse them of their illnesses and sins.

Police said the children, aged five, eight and ten, were found with their heads shaved and their parents kneeling beside them in a house used as a church. They were found in Boseong, a village in the south, on Saturday.

South Korean media reports said the “pastor” and his wife had a congregation of ten followers and said they had locked up their children – two sons and a daughter – on 24 January after they became sick with colds.

The couple beat each child with a belt and fly-swatter 39 times in the morning and 39 times in the evening.

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Fundie Nut Uses Kitchen-Table-Surgery on Four Year Old Son

A Vancouver-area father has been found guilty after botching a home-circumcision attempt on his four-year-old son as part of a spiritual quest to make things right with God.

The former Jehovah's Witness, who was trying to follow a literal interpretation of the Bible after a series of misfortunes hit his family.

During the trial, the Court heard that in 2002 he began the religious quest that eventually led him to believe that both he and son needed to be circumcised to celebrate Passover.

His first attempt to circumcise himself ended up with his foreskin turning black and only part of it cut off. When he couldn't stop the bleeding, he called an ambulance, and a doctor in a hospital emergency room ended up stitching up the bleeding wound.

The man later returned to the internet for more research and met some other religious fundamentalists, who were also dog breeders. They advised him they used a veterinary powder called BloodStop to halt any bleeding when they circumcised their 13-year-old son .

When asked in court whether the man used ice to ease the boy's pain, he replied, "Where would the Israelites have found ice?"

He then applied Blood Stop, gave the boy some ice cream and told him he could watch whatever movies he wanted that week, before heading off to church.

Christians Starve 18 month old baby to death because he wouldn't say 'Amen'

Baby Javon Thompson Sickening Christian fundamentalists starved baby Javon Thompson (left) to death because he would not (or could not!) say the word 'Amen' after the lord's prayer and because he was diagnosed as demonically 'defiant' by the cult leaders. The baby's body was stuffed in a suitcase. More background here:

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THE EVILS OF EXORCISM

When another child is beaten to death will the staff of Everyman take their share of the responsibility for legitimising the Evil of Exorcism?

The BBC allows sectarian fundamentalist's full reign to promote their mediaeval claptrap under the cover of 'religious broadcasting (Everyman's The Exorcist, 9.00pm Wednesday 16th January 2002 : BBC2. ) .

Even though many innocent children and adults have been killed by exorcism.

Even though the Church of England is already aware of dangers like these:

  • In 1990 A schoolgirl was torn to death after a 48 hour exorcism ritual when her mother tried to rip a non-existent foetus from the 11 year old after she became convinced the child had fallen pregnant by the Devil.
  • In August 1993 a religious group in Leeds was reported for trying to use exorcism as a specific to 'cure' epilepsy. Who knows how many epileptics suffered at their hands.
  • In 1994 Three people were convicted for the manslaughter of a 22 year old woman who was beaten, and kicked for three days in an exorcism to supposedly drive out the devil.
  • In 1996 A woman was killed after being jumped on after a minister had spent several days exorcising her trying to cast out demons. The 53 year old woman had originally complained of severe headaches and abdominal pains.
  • In 1997 a Harrow social worker took fundamentalist Christians into a woman's home to exorcise demons from her son who has a severe brain disorder.

THE GAWBER EXORCISM:

Perhaps the most celebrated case, which caused the Church of England to completely revamp its rules,  was where a man who had been made insane through exorcism killed his wife by tearing her face apart until she choked to death on her own blood.

The killer was a member of a local church whose leaders  became convinced he was possessed. They subjected him to a day and a night of exorcism. Under this maltreatment the man became violent and was then taken to a Cof E vicar whose involvement only made things worse. The vicar eventually called in Methodist Ministers supposedly 'skilled' in exorcism to exorcise the man again. Twelve hours later when the 'exorcists' became mentally and physically exhausted, the man was told that 40 demons had been exorcised but the Spirit of Murder remained. Whereupon he was taken home to his poor wife. In a fit of insane violence brought on by the exorcism,  he murdered her with his bare hands.

This completely avoidable tragedy was a direct result of the exorcism. Exorcisms like the ones Everyman are causing to be legitimised. An expert witness, consultant psychologist Hugo Milne, was asked by the judge at the Gawber trial whether the exorcism had caused the man to kill. Mr Milne said :

"It was entirely related to his trance state and his eventual killing of his wife. It caused it.".

The judge accepted that view in his summing up and also made clear that the man had been a loving husband who had been exorcised into committing an unforgivable act of murder  completely out of character.  Incarcerating him in a mental institution the judge said he now had to live with the knowledge that he had deprived his three small children of their mother and father.  His defence counsel railed at the fact that the people who had caused the exorcism were not charged and made it clear that he thought they should be imprisoned with the husband as accessories.  

After the trial , which got nationwide publicity, the CofE published new guidelines and set up 'official' exorcists in each diocese. The idea of course was to intercept and control the mediaeval idiocities of  'maverick' vicars.  This can be clearly seen when, a year later, the Archbishop of Canterbury's office condemned impromptu exorcisms by a CofE vicar in a church near Gawber. The clergyman eventually resigned.

People's memories are very short and today the original intent behind those rules is being misrepresented by a new wave of exorcists.  What were restrictions are being passed off  as 'guidelines'  developed to cope with what they see as the 'increasing need for exorcisms'. A need which does not really exist but which is fuelled by irresponsible programs of this low calibre.

The 'star exorcist' of the Everyman program, Tom Willis, Ex CofE vicar, is plainly aware of the history and dangers of exorcism.  In 1996 Willis was quoted in a critical article in the CofE Church Times under the headline EXORCISM CAN BE DANGEROUS and which discussed the misuse of exorcism. Cannon Dominic Walker warned that exorcism is now being applied indiscriminately for any type of problem . He had discovered that victims of sexual abuse had been summarily exorcised. They had been despicably told 'if you've been abused then you are demonised'.

In defence of his own position Willis said

'I don't do many exorcisms of people, but I do about 30 or so exorcisms of buildings a year, ...a number of Clergy had performed exorcisms where psychological help might have been more appropriate. '

Willis omitted to define what situations were 'appropriate' for exorcisms nor how one would obtain skill in identifying them, but he did criticise the Church of England's 'guidelines' saying they were 'vague'.  

This measured response contrasts with a newspaper piece on 17th February 1995 where he was billed as an 'Occult Expert' and head of a training course for exorcists being held in Scarborough.  Regardless of the 'vagueness' of the CofE guidelines Willis had been able to train ten other CofE vicars in exorcism at this course. The course covered Hauntings, Poltergeists and finished with 'Occult Practices and Oppression'; all key motifs of the Christian Fundamentalists' war wagon.

Indeed, when Sue Macgregor did a piece on it for Radio 4 she countered that doctors and psychotherapists said that those who thought they were demon-possessed needed medical treatment.  Not neccessarily so, said the Reverend Kevin Logan.  Logan had been a main-player in the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the 1980s. Famous (amongst other things), for claiming that 86% of children had suffered some occult 'oppression' and for  blessing children (who had supposedly suffered from satanic contamination ) on camera for that appallingly unprofessional Cook Report program The Devil's Work, which created most of the Satanic Panic.  Logan said there was a war going on, that the church needs to be able to cope and learn the 'strategies of the enemy'. Doctors have their place but so do ministers. '

N.B.: In March 1988, just prior to the Satanic Panic which they helped start, The Christian Missionary group Reachout, which Logan helped out with and supported was reported as conducting chain-exorcisms of adults in Rhyll.

Then in Woman's Realm a star exorcee Muriel Scorah explains how Willis exorcised her from.... Spiritualism.  Now Spiritualism may appear eccentric to some, but it is actually a form of the Christian religion. Spiritualists go to church, pray to God and hail Jesus as The Messiah.  Here we have another indicator of the inability of exorcists to define what may and what may not require exorcising. Everyman are irresponsibly pushing the drama of Exorcism but  many of the people whom they are celebrating clearly have an agenda of intolerance for alternative beliefs.  

Tom Willis said he was 'concerned about the growth of Satanic Groups'.  We must remind our readers that Mr Willis was one of those Christian activists who believed in the since disproven idea of Satanic Ritual Abuse. He appeared in numerous sensational newspaper articles which claimed that it existed.

Just as in the case of the poor Gawber woman who had her face clawed to shreds by a loving husband made insane by exorcism, memories of the nationwide panic over the myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse (and the 86 children who had their lives destroyed by misguided action by the authorities ) have also faded sufficiently  from public view to allow opportunists at Everyman to peddle this poison yet again.

The situation wouldn't be so dangerous if self-styled exorcists weren't pro-active but they are VERY active. Exorcism can be clearly seen as a form of missionary activity. The Christian Counsellor magazine, the journal of the Waverly College, was at the forefront of promoting the idea of having 'counsellors' on tap after every traumatic incident. The College even set some of the benchmarks for the national qualifications for 'counselling', yet in 1992 it published a major article serialised over four consecutive issues concerning Exorcism as an adjunct to Counselling. Here we have a clear example of the recruitment of Christian activists to minister to people who are emotionally vulnerable under the guise of psychological counselling. Who knows how many poor children and adults have been abused and sought help from 'counsellors' only to be abused yet again in exorcism ceremonies of one kind or another.

Perhaps the most appalling thing about  BBC's Everyman is it's cultural and moral blindness. Their view of society is imperialistic and simplistic. They may acknowledge the token Sikh, Moslem or Buddhist but appear to think that everyone else is a nominal Christian. Of what use is a program on Christian Exorcism to Jews, Buddhists, Moslems, Atheists, Pagans or Voodooists? Are we to assume that non-Christians are immune to these supposed demons, or will the Christian exorcists interfere with adherents of non Christian beliefs as well?

The ultimate justification for this program is the usual ,unspecified, supposed threat of ''evil' for which no proof has ever been offered. In contradistinction we have the pile of documentary evidence proving the extensive  and terrible harm exorcism can do.  It is mediaeval superstition of the worst kind.  This program should not have been commissioned and questions should be asked as to why it was. It will undoubtedly be used by the new wave of exorcists as 'further proof' of the need for more exorcisms - until another Gawber case explodes across the headlines and the promoters of the barmy idea slip silently out of view again.  This program will definitely result in a glut of vulnerable people rushing to be exorcised. If recent history is anything to go by a proportion of them will incur unnecessary suffering in the future and maybe even die in the process. The fault for that will lie partly at the door of Everyman.  

Ends.

John Freedom, Mortlake 16 January 2002


'Father' Gabriele Amorth

And It's Not Just The Loonies In The Fringes of Christianity

From The Times: March 11, 2010

Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican

Richard Owen in Rome

Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.

Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said that the consequences of satanic infiltration included power struggles at the Vatican as well as "cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon".

Father Amorth, who has just published Memoirs of an Exorcist, a series of interviews with the Vatican journalist Marco Tosatti, said that the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in 1981 had been the work of the Devil, as had an incident last Christmas when a mentally disturbed woman threw herself at Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Midnight Mass, pulling him to the ground.

Father Amorth told La Repubblica that the devil was "pure spirit, invisible. But he manifests himself with blasphemies and afflictions in the person he possesses. He can remain hidden, or speak in different languages, transform himself or appear to be agreeable. At times he makes fun of me."

He said it sometimes took six or seven of his assistants to to hold down a possessed person. Those possessed often yelled and screamed and spat out nails or pieces of glass, which he kept in a bag. "Anything can come out of their mouths – finger-length pieces of iron, but also rose petals."

He said that hoped every diocese would eventually have a resident exorcist. Under Church Canon Law any priest can perform exorcisms, but in practice they are carried out by a chosen few trained in the rites.

Father Amorth was ordained in 1954 and became an official exorcist in 1986. In the past he has suggested that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were possessed by the Devil. He was among Vatican officials who warned that J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels made a "false distinction between black and white magic".

He approves, however, of the 1973 film The Exorcist, which although "exaggerated" offered a "substantially exact" picture of possession.

In 2001 he objected to the introduction of a new version of the exorcism rite, complaining that it dropped centuries-old prayers and was "a blunt sword" about which exorcists themselves had not been consulted. The Vatican said later that he and other exorcists could continue to use the old ritual.

He is the president of honour of the Association of Exorcists.
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"Do you know what I would do if I was the Pope for a moment?" Amorth asked. "I would provide every opportunity for exorcisms. Like the Orthodox Church. There you do not need the permission of a bishop." Source:
BUCHAREST, Romania, January 31st 2008 — A priest began a seven-year jail term Wednesday for murdering a young nun during an exorcism ritual when she was bound, chained to a cross and denied food and water for days. Irina Cornici, 23, died from dehydration, exhaustion and suffocation during an ordeal that stunned Romania and prompted the Orthodox Church to promise reforms and psychological tests to screen potential clergy. Cornici, who had previously been treated for schizophrenia, had believed she heard the devil talking to her....

Vatican Exorcist Orders Four Adults to Hold Down Children During Exorcisms

Father Amorth has previously said that people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron and have such superhuman strength that even children have to be held down by up to four people. Source:
... And when one of them dies how many adults will it take to carry the poor child's coffin?


Archbishop of York Demands Exorcism on The NHS?

Latest Evangelical Move To Hijack NHS bill parroted by BBC (British Broadcasting Christians) as Though Necessary. See here for full details:



More Deaths In The Offing As Nutter Exorcists Line Up To Do Battle With Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll

Mentally Ill Will Fall Into Their Clutches Instead of Getting Medical Aid
The Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance,is sponsoring a special Conference on Exorcism, to be held in Baltimore in early November 2010.

“The conference will address not only the theological and scriptural foundations of the Rite of Exorcism but it will also provide the necessary, practical insights into the many liturgical, canonical and pastoral issues associated with exorcisms and the Church’s battle against the demonic presence in the world and the lives of the Christian faithful.  

The first afternoon session will focus on “the phenomenon of evil in contemporary culture; and responses and resources available to address the presence of evil, particularly through the use of exorcism.” 

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Two Year Old Child Forced To Undergo Exorcism At The Hands of Christian Nutters

Warning On Child 'Demons'

Exorcisms, (religious rites some think can expel devils from people), are on the rise in Australia.

Michelle Pecoult, from Perth-based non-denominational Christian ministry Set Right, said it did four or five exorcisms a day and had treated a two-year-old.

The child had "started growling and snarling".

"(The demon) was told to leave and in 20 minutes left. The child didn't know (it had happened)," she said.

The ministry's website claims depression is a "common low-ranking demon" while schizophrenia is "another demon we have met often and evicted".

Dr Choong-Siew Yong, who represents psychiatry on the Australian Medical Association's federal council, said he was concerned about untrained practitioners making claims that contradict science. He warned that saying someone was possessed could reinforce their delusions and stop them getting proper care.

"There is an enormous amount of research that has discredited the idea that people with psychiatric conditions such as depression and schizophrenia are because of demonic possession," he said.

"Some people with psychotic illnesses do believe that they're possessed, or have strange religious ideas. When they're assessed by a doctor there will be a diagnosis of mental illness."

Ms Pecoult insisted: "God is greater than any medical doctor. Depression can be a symptom of a demonic power being in there.
"Jesus dealt with lunatic spirits. They're real. You can't get rid of them by medication. You have to renew your mind."
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ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN? THEN WE CHALLENGE YOU TO DEMAND YOUR PRIEST OR VICAR CONVEY YOUR WISH TO STOP THE PRACTICE OF EXORCISING BABIES AND CHILDREN TO THEIR BISHOPS. JESUS SAYETH, IF YOU REMAIN SILENT YOU ARE GUILTY OF CONDONING IT.

Jesus said:

Mark 10:14 Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. 16 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

Mt 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Mt 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

Mt 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Mr 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Lu 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.


MORE AVOIDABLE CASES OF RELIGIOUS KILLING OF CHILDREN!
S.A.F.F. PROPHESIES COME TERRIBLY TRUE


POSTSCRIPT:  John Freedom's awful prophecy comes horrifingly true as  8 year old Victoria Climbe is beaten to death by  Christian Fanatics  in an Exorcism.  Right under the noses of London Social Workers!   Government spends millions on a sack-cloth and ashes whitewash whilst the Everyman team hide their faces from view. .  

It's happening world-wide. Look at this: www.saff.org.uk/witchild.htm and weep!


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