Benedict Daswa was an ordinary South African who belonged to his country's Catholic minority. \u00a0In 1990, he was murdered for opposing witchcraft. He left behind a mother, wife, and eight children. His family recently found out that Pope Francis has recognized Daswa's martyrdom.\u00a0 \t <\/p>\n
JEAN JULES GHASSEM\u00a0 JEAN JULES GHASSEM\u00a0 Born in 1946, Daswa was a pioneer in his country. He tried to save thousands of children from weapons and guerrilla forces. \t<\/p>\n JEAN JULES GHASSEM\u00a0 He was known as 'Tshimangadzo' which translates to 'miracle.'<\/p>\n He is recognized as a martyr for opposing witchcraft and because he was killed out of hatred for the Catholic faith. The South African will become the first blessed and martyr from his country. \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 3, 2015. ;Benedict Daswa was killed 25 years ago because he opposed witchcraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":53374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/BofnlVtC3Pc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bdaswaint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPostulator General, Benedict Daswa <\/strong>
\n'The fact that a child of the country is recognized for his virtues and his martyrdom will help bring together men and women from the country's different races, religions, and faiths.' \t A young Catholic friend helped Daswa convert to Catholicism. Although witchcraft is fairly common in South Africa, he was opposed to it. One day, after refusing to help pay a wizard to bring rain, Daswa was murdered in his car. \t <\/p>\n
\nPostulator General, Benedict Daswa <\/strong>
\n'With his courage and fidelity to the Catholic faith, Benedict Daswa is a model for the entire population of South Africa' \t <\/p>\n
\n Postulator General, Benedict Daswa
\n<\/strong>'He was a well-respected man in his city, Benedict Daswa was considered a leader. He was certain that sports greatly influenced kids' upbringings. So he created a football club for them.'<\/p>\n