Pastor Joseph Ita runs the Liberty Gospel church in Eket, and believes children, including babies, become witches by being passed poisoned food
Photograph: Robin Hammond/The Observer

Stop Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries of Nigeria from labeling children as witches.

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Evangelist (Mrs.) Helen Ukpabio

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5:28 am PST, Feb 8, Kelly Cavuoto, United Kingdom

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5:54 am PST, Feb 6, Des Young, Australia
Children should be allowed to live without dreadful attacks made on them. No child is a witch. There are no witches. It is a false story put out by people seeking power and money.

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10:14 am PST, Feb 5, Jeanette Johansen, Denmark
This woman is crazy and evil, she must be stopped

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11:31 pm PST, Feb 1, Rev Anandbabu Ravuri, India
Dear in Christ, I greet you in the most highly exalted name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ .I praise god that He has privileged me to send this E-mail to you for your kind co-operation. I sincerely apologize you for my approach like this. Please don't get irritated on reading my E-mail. I am a servant of god in India. I have been doing the Gospel work for the last 12 years. I have my fellow pastors to co-operate with me for the extension of the kingdom of god. Our Gospel work is mainly done in rural, tribal and remote slum areas. India is a country of Hinduism as the main religion. Indians worship 33 million of gods and goddesses. Out of one billion Indians only 2.4% are Christians. Ours is a secular country. But there is a hell of intolerance for Christianity. There have been endeavors to root out Christianity from India. In such conditions we have been doing the Gospel work by facing many troubles. Christianity in our society is considered as one of the lowest communities. Christians have no respect. They are treated as untouchables and are not allowed to live together with the people of higher community. It is because of their poverty and illiteracy. So most of our fellows Christians live in huts at the out skirts of villages. We are regular victims of nature calamities such as cyclones, floods and fire accidents, which take away lives and shelters of people in a great number. Consequently there are orphans and widows. Gospel work in India is a matter of starvation and persecutions. Our resources are very small and there are many times beyond the reach of our basic needs. We are in need of a monthly support for our pastors to look after their families when do the Gospel work. We need a monthly support to look after the orphan children who are hungry in many days in the month. At such times they seem to be gloomy and sick. Every orphan child has a very heart rending history. We are hope fully looking forward for a godparent like you to fill the tiny belly and wipe the tears on the tender cheek of at least one orphan child. The little you help us will enable us to do a great deal of God's work. Our aim is to reach every nook and corner and promote the Gospel to every perishing soul. We are in need of bicycles and a four wheeler for our Gospel out reach work. Your kind involvement will enable us to achieve our goal. Please have a kind consideration for our ministry. You are warm welcome to India. Please pay your esteemed visit to India to see our work here. Please join your hands in ours to save India for Jesus. We sincerely pray for your welfare and prosperity. I await your kind and favorable response prayerfully and hopefully. Sincerely your servant for Jesus' sake, Rev Anandbabu Ravuri, Christian Living Ministries, Door No: 20-33-8, Ravuri’s Street, Chinnaravuru, Tenali-522201, Andhra Pradesh, South India. Please visit our ministry website www.ministry-webs.com/ministry/clmindia

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9:08 am PST, Jan 27, Kristofer Ekaas, Sweden

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9:01 am PST, Jan 27, Pia Johansson, Sweden

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1:38 pm PST, Jan 26, Name not displayed, Denmark

# 2,283:

1:37 pm PST, Jan 26, JAKOB Wenstrup, Denmark
this Woman has to be stoped,I think she is sick.

# 2,282:

1:35 pm PST, Jan 26, Dorthe Due Christensen, Denmark

# 2,281:

12:18 am PST, Jan 25, Trevor Hsu, Maryland
Helen Ukpabio greatly misinterprets the bible if she believes that any child is a witch or may be possesed. Children are indeed our future and the most inoccent of all of us.

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8:15 pm PST, Jan 23, Deirdre Brownell, California

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8:53 pm PST, Jan 22, Erika Hahn, Massachusetts
Nigeria's government you need to step in and put a stop to this ignorant witch hunting and scape goating of innocent children. Total power abuse!

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6:00 am PST, Jan 22, Ranjan Mathews, India
Children are like Angels on Earth, how can they be branded as witches? Stop this application of sick minds' torture on innocent Nigerian children!

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4:18 pm PST, Jan 21, Lucille Iacovelli, Massachusetts

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3:48 am PST, Jan 21, Name not displayed, Netherlands
G. de Wildt/Schavemaker

# 2,275:

6:28 am PST, Jan 19, Henry A, United Kingdom
I am wondering the stupidity and foolishness of you people or group in US who havetaken advantage of internet to write and promote your ignorance without a proof. i have attended liberty gospel church for years before i left for the UK and had witnessed the lady Apostle conduct several deliverance service, she only ministers from a distance and oftentime people confesse their acts during the preaching before she conducts deliverane. The witnesses are always there to confirm to the confessions and many of those delivered from the witchcraft possesion are currently members of the ministry, where did you get your video from? from her God given ministry or from spiritualist who claim they can deliver peole but end up killing them or did you fake it just to oppose and persecute the church?. You need to repent.

# 2,274:

10:28 pm PST, Jan 18, Janice Lawrence, Tennessee
This is the 21st century, not the 17th. Let's be mature, spiritually developed people.

# 2,273:

12:07 pm PST, Jan 18, Brandy Miller, California

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11:57 am PST, Jan 18, Name not displayed, California
These are some of the most horrific brutalities I've ever heard about. It's amazing that these kinds of atrocities could ever exist within humanity. And to children? This can't be allowed to continue.

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4:07 am PST, Jan 18, Mariana Zinga, Netherlands

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11:03 pm PST, Jan 17, Name not displayed, California
I am completely horrified by the things I have recently learned. This is an atrocity!!

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9:52 am PST, Jan 13, Name not displayed, Netherlands

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3:40 am PST, Jan 13, Name not displayed, Austria
she's gon mad, like Robert Mgarby

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3:16 am PST, Jan 12, Elisa Muntjewerf, Netherlands
I am outraged, STOP hurting this children, don't touch God's anointed.

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4:49 am PST, Jan 11, Thomas De Kruif, Netherlands

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4:38 am PST, Jan 11, Lauri Verschuur, Netherlands

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4:26 am PST, Jan 11, Name not displayed, Netherlands

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4:40 am PST, Jan 10, Name not displayed, Netherlands

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3:12 am PST, Jan 10, Virgil Cotino, Suriname
It's a pity that most of the documentaries about the "witchcraft hunt in Nigeria" have been taken of sites but luckily i still could find one that is still online. I am outraged and uttermost disturbed about what is going on in the churches in Nigeria. Have we not learn from the past?? This has little to do with the so-called mixture between the traditional nature believe and Christianity. For centuries churches are looking for someone to blame for poverty and other miseries that are attacking the community. Spirituality have been there before any religion were practiced on Mother Earth. Since the beginning of time people were living in harmony with the nature-elements that GOD put on Mother Earth. So Helen, don't blame community's poverty on spiritually people who in your terms are labelled as witchcrafters. Your are NOT GOD. I can't even acknowledge you as child of GOD for judging these innocent children(they aren't even witchcrafters!!) as so-called witchcrafters and indoctrinate their parents to torture, abandon and even kill them.

# 2,261:

5:24 pm PST, Jan 9, Ronny Van Doorn, Netherlands

# 2,260:

4:48 pm PST, Jan 9, P S, Netherlands
Wake up people please wake up and stop this

# 2,259:

12:41 pm PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, Switzerland
This must be ending. As fast as possible.All children are innocent.When they can play and are happy, the whole world will be better. Those "prophetess" must be punished. I am bursting from anger!!!

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12:22 pm PST, Jan 8, Niels Ter Schuur, Netherlands

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10:36 am PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, Netherlands

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10:30 am PST, Jan 8, Paul Haverkorn, Netherlands
spread the word!

# 2,255:

9:57 am PST, Jan 8, Name not displayed, Netherlands
I saw the documentary of africa's which children yesterday and this madness must be stopped! if i ever see that sorry excuse of a human being, im afraid of what i might actually do to her..thats to give you a glymps of the violent thoughts that have been running through my head all day this is evil at his purest form and it must be erratocated NOW! billions are spend on afghanistan and iraq, while this problem has not been mentioned by one western politician, makes me feel ashamed to live in the western world

# 2,254:

8:25 am PST, Jan 8, Leo Uyterlinde, Netherlands
This is an evil and mediaval practice. Churches should preach love instead of stimulating horror. Poor, poor childeren....

# 2,253:

4:51 am PST, Jan 8, Daisy Kamstra-Warmerdam, Netherlands
I saw the documentary aswell and I was shocked. How can they do that in Jesus's name? They have to read the Bible beter. It's good to see that somebody takes care of the children.

# 2,252:

2:59 am PST, Jan 8, Marjolein Muntjewerf, Netherlands
God's Word tells us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. I urge anyone involved in these practices to consider Jesus' command very VERY seriously. It will have eternal consequences.

# 2,251:

2:55 am PST, Jan 8, K. N. T. Swensen, Netherlands

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