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Bacchus4.0

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Thu Jan 16, 2020, 05:51 PM Jan 2020

7 killed, 14 tortured in Panama exorcism terror rituals

https://www.yahoo.com/news/7-killed-14-tortured-panama-161241228.html

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Seven people were killed in a bizarre religious ritual in a jungle community in Panama, in which indigenous residents were rounded up by about 10 lay preachers and tortured, beaten, burned and hacked with machetes to make them "repent their sins.” Police freed 14 members of the Ngabé Buglé indigenous group who had been tied up and beaten with wooden cudgels and Bibles.

On Thursday, local prosecutor Rafael Baloyes described the chilling scene that investigators found when they made their way through the jungle-clad hills to the remote Ngabé Buglé indigenous community near the Caribbean coast on Tuesday.

Alerted by three villagers who escaped and made their way to a local hospital for treatment earlier, police were prepared for something bad, but were still surprised by what they found at an improvised “church” at a ranch, where a little-known religious sect known as “The New Light of God" was operating.

“They were performing a ritual inside the structure. In that ritual, there were people being held against their will, being mistreated,” Baloyes said.

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Fundy control freaks I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2020 #1

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
1. Fundy control freaks
Thu Jan 16, 2020, 09:31 PM
Jan 2020

And christian nazi assholes are disgusting people. I can say I hate them. After what I went through with the Fundy pervert next door as a kid,and the shit I went through with the rabid assholes in the assemblies of gawd It has left me unable to trust 99 %of people calling themselves christians.
I have a maltheistic hatred for christianity these days . I hate thier god.

I hope abusive christianity and abusive christians fade away someday. It would make for
a saner safer and better world.

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