Ghana – “A Tale of the Spirit Children”
(2021) - 28m
Ghana – “A Tale of the Spirit Children”
“If a child is born with any abnormality that child is considered evil, bad omen, witch and wizard. ‘The child came to the room. The child held my neck. The child wants to kill me. I see the child in my dream with a knife, with a gun’. So, they have been killing these children and I heard about it and I said: ‘No’! I came here and I began to rescue the children”. Sr. Stan Mumuni
Ghana – “A Tale of the Spirit Children”
“If a child is born with any abnormality that child is considered evil, bad omen, witch and wizard. ‘The child came to the room. The child held my neck. The child wants to kill me. I see the child in my dream with a knife, with a gun’. So, they have been killing these children and I heard about it and I said: ‘No’! I came here and I began to rescue the children”. Sr. Stan Mumuni
In the small village of Sang in North-eastern Ghana, Sr. Stan Mumuni encountered a practice in which children with physical disabilities (often resulting from a lack of medical clinics in this impoverished region) were destined to be killed by their relatives, accused of being cursed and evil. She started by rescuing one and with time evermore until today the “Nazareth Home for God’s Children” and the newly established community, the Marian Sisters of Eucharistic Love, continue to welcome a swelling number of children deemed at risk of death from fearful and superstitious families.
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