is the centrepiece of African religions, because it opens to all a channel of mediation with the gods. According to the Yoruba, 401orisha“line the road to heaven,” and diviners identify among them the personalorishato which an individual should appeal for guidance, protection, and blessing....
Pan African Forum Ltd has been at the forefront in calling for UN to return to Resolution 1608 of the General Assembly of 1961.We note that an interesting development is the UN's acknowledgement of the need to equally request for protection assistance to ... Read On>>> Majority (98%) of...
Hence, Christians have held corporate prayers at local church, regional, and national levels to harness the impersonal forces of El Ni?o, La Ni?a, and the recent Cyclone Dineo. For many Swazis in this predominantly Christian population, God has the power to restore any disturbed equilibrium ...
The primary goal and activity of Vodou is tosevilwa(“serve the spirits”)—to offer prayers and perform various devotionalritesdirected at God and particular spirits in return for health, protection, and favour.Spirit possessionplays an important role in Afro-Haitian religion, as it does in man...
Part of the reason for this difference is that Europe has treated refugee protection as part of its immigration policy − immigration law is about controlling entry; refugee law should be about offering protection. Changing a few conventions will not protect asylum seekers and iron out the ...
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and the child is placed under the care of an old woman,too old for field labor.For what this separation is done,I do not know,unless it be to hinder the development of the child's affection toward its mother,and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child....
It might be argued that "proper" death rites are more a guarantee of protection for the living than to secure a safe passage for the dying. There is ambivalence about attitudes to the recent dead, which fluctuate between love and respect on the one hand and dread and despair on the other...
Silver Dime For Protection, from "Oklahoma Slave Narratives" Interview conducted for the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration, circa 1936. LULA TAYLOR: How a Black Conjure Doctor and His Wife Enslaved a Slave in Arkansas in 1865, from "Arkansas Slave Narratives," ...