In regard to the March 22 edition of The Standard-Times, I would like to voice my objection to a piece that appeared as a feature article on the front page of that edition.

This was an obituary tribute to a man named Shawn Poirier titled, “Witches mourn their king.” (more…)

This Sunday, for those of you who forgot to pencil it into your diaries, is the 10th annual Pagan Awareness Network Twilight Picnic and Full Moon Ritual.

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Iowa - The cramped used bookstore off Main Street in Cedar Falls is not just home to shelves of old novels and magazines (and probably a mass gathering of rats behind the walls), but also to Ishtar’s Tarot Reading.

The man who runs the store is not actually called Ishtar, but I guess Bob just doesn’t sound as otherworldly and mythical. (more…)

Warning that witchcraft is real and is destroying the Catholic Church in Africa, scholars from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa say that many African priests fear witchcraft or are ignorant of their power to confront the devil. (more…)

West Haven, CT - The popularity of the Harry Potter books have millions of children under its spell. But in West Haven, a book about wizardry has one mother anything but charmed.

A book in a West Haven elementary school has outraged a mother who claims it has exposed her young daughter to the occult. Friday night, she brought the book back to school to ask other parent’s opinion and to confront the principal. (more…)

An entire generation is being lost to the occult and other New Age practices, says Catholic author and speaker Moira Noonan.

Noonan, of San Diego, was in St. Louis last week for several talks in which she shared the details of her leaving the Catholic Church as a teenager, embracing New Age practices for a quarter of a century and her eventual decision to return to the Church. (more…)

The Tyra Banks Show, a popular daytime talk show hosted by the former supermodel, aired an episode on Monday about “The Lives of Witches,” which included as a guest a Christian author who previously left her life of witchcraft.

Sarah Anne Sumpolec was invited to be on the show after a last minute cancellation, and was an attempt by the producers to bring balance to the show.

The topic of the Monday’s episode is controversial to many Christians who see witchcraft as a dark art. Yet, the involvement of Sumpolec brought a Christian voice to the arena.

“When I was in high school, I was a practicing witch. It wasn’t until college that I became a Christian and came out of that dark world,” Sumpolec said in a statement. “The Tyra producers thought my story of coming out of witchcraft, how it led me to attempt suicide, and my current beliefs about it, was the right balance for their program.”

The fact that Sumpolec was on the show came as a large surprise. She found out about the opportunity from a sudden email, and flew out of an airport only hours later for the Los Angeles taping.

Among the hectic schedule that ensued, the Christian author wanted to be on the show, so that she could show Tyra’s viewers, which number around 2 million per day, that the world of witchcraft can be a very dangerous choice.

“It’s always a blessing when we get to share the truth,” shared Sumpolec in a statement. “Even though I was one lone voice, at least those watching will hear about witchcraft from a different angle.”

The ex-witch has her own ministry back at home which focuses on young adults. She speaks and writes books to warn them about the hazards of witchcraft, because teenagers and twenty-somethings are the most susceptible to the black art.

In addition to Sumpolec, the talk show featured six witches and two Satanists.

Source: Christian Post