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Haitian Evangelicals Attack Voodoo Practitioners
Christians in Haiti have attacked a group of Voodoo practitioners.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (February 24, 2010)—Some Haitian Christians have attacked a group of Voodoo practitioners, who were pelted with rocks.
The attack halted a ceremony meant to honor victims of last month's earthquake.
Voodooists gathered in a seaside slum where thousands of earthquake survivors are living in tents and depending on food aid.
Praying and singing, the group was trying to conjure spirits to guide lost souls when a crowd of evangelicals started shouting.
Some threw rocks while others urinated on Voodoo symbols.
When police left, the crowd destroyed the altars and Voodoo offerings of food and rum.
Religious tension has increased since the earthquake and some Voodoo practitioners say they've converted to Christianity, fearing that the quake was a warning from God or that they'll lose out on the aid they need to survive.
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So... a bunch of voodoo worshipers show up at your recently deceased relative's grave and start to impose their religious beliefs on a semi-sacred site (at least to you). I'd be pretty mad about it too!
Boston College hosts an excellent online lecture (43 min) by Dr. Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University. She explains the current Evangelical strategies to reinterpret & reframe the historical, spiritual and legal landscape of Haiti. This video (time-sliced with excellent audio) from October 2009 shows why clashes are happening in Haiti now: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/mcalister2/ *
why don't those religous fanits get out of ther, and let that countre alone, before they blame us for everything and then starts trouble with the good old U.S.A.
