More on the problem of witchcraft in the African Church - this time in Uganda. The Alur people live an area of Uganda known as Nebbi where Henry was Bishop before he was archbishop.THE Anglican archbishop, Henry Luke Orombi, has told the Alur to stop witchcraft to fight poverty. “People still share one grass-thatched hut with goats, children, chicken and ducks.
You Alur people should have trust in God and stop witchcraft. Stop giving yourselves names like Kumakech (I am unlucky), Ajaruva and Masedi (disturbance), among others associated with poverty,” he said. “An Alur will not want to see his fellow Alur prospering; they prefer seeing other tribes developing as they bewitch themselves.
An Alur will wake up at night and sprinkle blood on the doorway of his fellow Alur who is developing. We must stop this backward habit.” Orombi’s wife Phoebe advised the Alur in other areas to develop their home area. “As you work in Gulu, Kampala and other places, think of putting up some structure at home where you body will be laid when you are dead,” she said.
Orombi was meeting the Nebbi community living in Gulu and Amuru districts on Tuesday in Bardege division, Gulu. He urged the elders to teach the children and women the Alur culture. Orombi is on a one-week pastoral visit to the diocese of northern Uganda.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/16/661735
Last summer I posted a Christianity Today piece on the problem in Nigeria. Here it is again.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/august/8.16.html
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