PANAMA: 7 Killed, 14 Tortured in Panama Exorcism Terror Rituals

[TomSea]

Panama   
7 Killed, 14 Tortured in Panama Exorcism Terror Rituals
More than a dozen members of an indigenous group were found tied up and beaten with wooden cudgels and Bibles, according to officials

Seven people were killed in a bizarre religious ritual in a jungle community in Panama, in which indigenous residents were rounded up by about 10 lay preachers and tortured, beaten, burned and hacked with machetes to make them "repent their sins.”

Police freed 14 members of the Ngabé Buglé indigenous group who had been tied up and beaten with wooden cudgels and Bibles.

On Thursday, local prosecutor Rafael Baloyes described the chilling scene that investigators found when they made their way through the jungle-clad hills to the remote Ngabé Buglé indigenous community near the Caribbean coast on Tuesday.

Read more at: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/panama-exorcism-terror-rituals-deaths/2202519/

Early reporting but the next paragraph mentions  “The New Light of God" as a church operating in an area. I will have to read up more on this.

[SZonian]

Bkmk...kinda curious for me as an ex-pat Zonian of Panama.