Awareness of Witchcraft

Everyone knows that witchcraft is rampant in Africa. When I first came here, I was aware that it was here but didn't pay much attention to it. The longer I've stayed, the more I see how it permeates people's lives here.
In most churches there is a fine line between Christianity and witchcraft, meaning that many churches are really cults hiding behind the disguise of being a church. There is one really popular "church" here in the center of town which is known to be a cult. However, many of its members believe it to really be a church. Most of the members are slum dwellers. Many are illiterate and can't read the Bible for themselves so are easily deceived. Plus, add to it the fact of the desperation of their lives and it makes for a really big following. Desperate people will go to any measure to find relief.
This church is known to have many healings, deliverances, and prayers to be answered. However, in my opinion, the prayers and the methods to get things answered are a little bizarre. However, for safety reasons, I won't go into a lot of the details.
Then there is the issue of blatant witchcraft, which in recent months, seems to be in the daily news. It seems almost daily there is an article in the newspaper about something that has happened: child sacrifice, rituals, angry mobs burning shrines, etc.
The rate of child sacrifice has been alarming. In the month of December, there were over 100 children sacrifices. This has prompted many families who can afford it to circumcise their boys or pierce one of their ears and to pierce the ears of girl children. Again, this is for those who can afford to do so. The reason being something about the witch doctors won't sacrifice a child who has already shed blood or has some sort of imperfection (like pierced ears) on the body.
There are also many stories of the wealthy to get wealth will sacrifice someone. This is expecially true for the larger buildings. Rumor has it that most of those buildings have a body or head or the one sacrificed buried under them.
I could go on and on with the stories but really don't want to think about them. It's chilling to imagine that one human being could sacrifice another human being just for the sake of wealth.