Paganism Is Back in South Africa: Animal Sacrifice, Drinking Blood, Invoking Demons

The South African Bishops' Conference has commissioned Father Michael Wojciechowski, a Polish missionary with the 'Koinonia John the Baptist Community', to look into "the growing presence of ancestor worship".
He told PillarCatholic.com (5 February) that there's a lot of witchcraft and encounters with the demonic in the country.
There are many Pentecostal churches in the cities and only about 6% of the South African population is Catholic. But many of them visit local shamans: "The problem is that culture is often mixed with the occult, and that's a big problem."
One example is the invocation of spirits that they believe are their ancestors: "People will tell you things that they couldn't possibly know through natural means".
Father Wojciechowski believes that, at least in some cases, "we are talking about demons".
There's also a huge wave of young people returning to these pagan practices: "Many young people are becoming shamans," which is considered "a vocation."
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