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fredag 11. desember 2009


Pray, how do these healers make virus disappear?

In Kenya many people die every year because they get HIV or Aids, even if they have the money for the medicine. They believe they will be healed by preying and that God will help them. So they go to witchdoctors, healers and priests so they can get prayed for, as a result they get better…. The problem is that they do not get healed. They are just told that they are, and get fake medical test back, so they stop taking the meds and later on they die.
Faith healers, quacks and witchdoctors take advantage of victims’ helplessness.
Many of the bishops in charismatic churches broadcast themselves in local media. They show ill people get healed by praying, but it’s all fake. The ill people in the commercial, never was ill and they make a false picture of the reality. So they end up with spending money on there own death.
It is an example in the text. It says: When Agnes* was diagnosed with HIV, she was devastated.
She joined a charismatic church near her home in Nyeri and swiftly became ‘born-again’, accepting Jesus as her personal saviour.
Her friends were surprised at the sudden change, considering her former lifestyle.
Her health was fast deteriorating, but a fellow worshiper promised to take her to a bishop based in Nairobi, to pray for her.
On the advice of her church, she also refused to take ARVs. But several prayer sessions failed to heal her.
"She refused to be taken to hospital, believing God would heal her," a friend said at her funeral.

onsdag 2. desember 2009

Sport i Kenya

Athletics
Kenya is one of the world’s best counties at athletics. They do it good at many distance events. One of the most known athletics from Kenya is Catherine Ndebera who won women’s Boston marathon four times and was world champion two times and Paul Tergat, the marathon world record holder. During the Olympic games in Beijing Kenya won 5 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze in athletichs.

Cricket
Cricket is one popular sport in Kenya. Probably Because it was an English colony in many years and many Britons lives there, and in England cricket is a popular sport. Kenya has one of the worlds best team and came to the semi-final in the Cricket World Cup in 2003.

Rugby
Kenya is called a rugby union. In 2006 Kenya was ranked as 9th in the world.

Rally
Kenya is home of the famous safari rally. It was a part of the World Rally Championship, but since 2003 financial problems make them just with the Africa Rally Championship.

Volleyball
Kenya has one of Africa's best ladies volleyball team. They have also competed at the Olympics and World Championship, but with no notable success.

NAIROBI
Government: republic
Religion: Roman Catholic and protestant Christianity, Islam and the nature religions.
Language: Swahili, English
currency: Kenyan shilling
National day: the 12.th of December

Nairobi is the capital in Kenya. The city lies in the south part of Kenya. Nairobi is just around 100 years old and has about 2,5 millions inhabitants. Nairobi doesn’t have very many historic buildings, but the surroundings are great. For example the 5199m tall volcano Mount Kenya. The city is situated 1800 m over the ocean and it is Kenya’s economic center.
It is not very many tourist attractions in Nairobi, but there are some great nature territories outside the city. For example between Nairobi and Mombasa you can find one of the largest game reserves in the whole world. It is called Tsavo. There you can watch the animal life and natural wonders like underground springs. To the north you can also see Mount Kenya that is 5199m tall and Kenya’s tallest mountain, Kilimanjaro, in southeast on 5895m.
There are some tourist attractions in Nairobi, like the Kenyan National museum. The name Nairobi is coming from the Masai expression ”chilled water”.
In the end of the 1800 century Nairobi was just swamps in a lowering, but now Nairobi has becomed the main center for the whole East-Africa. It is also the largest city between Cairo and South-Africa. Many places in Nairobi consists of wide avenues and high-rise buildings.

Maasai
Maasai are one of the most famous indigenous, ethnic groups in Kenya and Tanzania. Their language is Maa and member of the Nilo-Saharan Language family who are related to Dinko and Nuer.
In 1994 there were 453,000 who spoke Maa in Kenya.
The Maasai people have their own mythology, where Einka is the big god whit two personalities, one good and one evil.
According to their own oral-story they come from the lower Nile valley north for Lake Turkana. They are shepherds and mostly deal with zebu-cattle, but also deals with sheep’s and goats. And the flocks give them what thy need to live. The traditional food is based on milk, often mixed with blood tapped form bull.
The community is organized in age classes. The boys get status as “warriors” when they get circumcised in an age of 16-17, later on in an age of 25-30 they become “old warriors” and are permitted to raise a family.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai
this is the Maasailand