![]() Of course, it is not the only explanation. Natalina says: “ Sorcery is a way of finding an explanation for a life of suffering. Natalina Isella is a seventy-year-old Italian Sister who has spent more than forty years in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ek’abana has two meanings in the Bashi language: ‘The home of the children’ and ‘The children have a home’. She is aware that her task is to bind up their broken hearts. Every day, these little girls present a problem whether great or small to which she gives a solution, especially by encouraging, urging, calming and reassuring them. Natalina takes all of them in and listens to them. Some have been beaten, others thrown out of their homes and others were subjected to attempted lynching. Some are only five, some about twelve or older. ![]() The centre has become a place of refuge for many little women who one day were called witches. Her face is serene and smiling as she caresses one of the little girls she looks after at the Ek’abana house on one of the hills of Bukavu, in the Kivu region in the south of the country. ![]() In the deep south of Nigeria, a Sister fights against ancient beliefs and in a rural diocese of Ghana, the Church works to give hope to many children. On a hill in the city of Bukavu in the south of the DR Congo, a centre has been built to take in girls accused of witchcraft. ![]()
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