Every minute of every day someone, somewhere is persecuted and even killed for their beliefs or behaviours. A depressing opening sentence, for sure, but so too is the news that eleven elderly people in Kenya have been burned to death for allegedly being Witches. The eight women and three men were aged between 80 and 96 years old, and the mob—it’s always a mob, amorphous, anonymous, cowardly, evil—dragged them out of their homes and burned them individually and then set their houses on fire. I pray for the world. I actively engage with it, trying, through direct action both personal [...]






