You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.
He was a murderer from the beginning,
not holding to the truth,
for there is no truth in him.
...for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:44 NIV
Police freed 14 members of the Ngabe Bugle indigenous group who had been tied up and beaten with wooden cudgels and Bibles.
Local prosecutor Rafael Baloyes described a chilling scene found by investigators when they made their way through the jungle-clad hills to the remote Ngabe Bugle indigenous community near the Caribbean coast Tuesday.
Alerted by three villagers who escaped and made their way to a local hospital for treatment earlier, police were prepared for something bad, Baloyes said, but were still surprised by what they discovered at an improvised ''church'' at a ranch where a little-known religious sect known as ''The New Light of God'' was operating.
''All of these rites were aimed at killing them if they did not repent their sins,'' he said. ''There was a naked person, a woman,'' inside the building, where investigators found machetes, knives and a ritually sacrificed goat, he said.
The rites had been going on since Saturday, and had already resulted in deaths, Baloyes said.
Ricardo Miranda, leader of the Ngabe Bugle semi-autonomous zone known as a Comarca, called the sect ''satanic'' and said it went against the region's Christian beliefs.
''We demand the immediate eradication of this Satanic sect, which violates all the practices of spirituality and co-existence in the Holy Scriptures,'' Miranda said."
KoreaTimes
