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19 years ago, the mother ialorixá Gilda dos Santos, of the Netherlands Ilé Ax Abbadá de Ogum, in Itapuã, had a fulminating heart attack. She died shortly after seeing a title with her photo in the Folha Universal newspaper of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, which called her "charlatan macumbeira". It was January 21, 2000.
The fact occurred two months after the invasion and destruction of the temple. Seven years later, the National Congress approved and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva approved Law No. 11,635 of 27 December 2007, which created the National Day of Combating Religious Intolerance.
The universal Church is prosecuted and sentenced to pay compensation of 1.372 billion rubles to the family of the religious leader, or 1 dollar per newspaper. In a process that lasted 10 years, the church appealed and managed to reduce the amount to R $ 600,000. Then the court granted a new reduction, this time to R $ 150,000. With interest and monetary correction, the seven heirs of Mother Gilda received about R $ 260,000 – about R $ 36,000 per son.
On Monday (21), the CORREIO spoke of religious intolerance with the ialorixá Mother Jaciara Ribeiro, daughter of Mother Gilda and chief of the terreiro. The interview took place during the Xango stone celebrations of Cajazeiras X. Find out:
How important is this date?
For me, there is a religious importance as ialorixá of Abigón d'Abajón de Ogum and personally, because of the death of my biological mother. She had the earthen invaded and the image stained by the Universal Leaf of the Kingdom of God, with the subject 'Macumbeiros charlatões harming the pocket and the lives of the clients'. Mother Gilda had a heart attack on January 21st and died.
Do you have a habit or a ritual on January 21st?
The Abbadá of Ogun wakes up by celebrating Mother Gilda's Ogum. We make references by calling and singing through Oya, because Mother Gilda does not die, she becomes the foundation of our struggle. Mother Gilda was a warrior woman, an Ogum woman and the year 2019 is based on the essence of Ogum. We want him to protect us and lend us his shield and his sword so that we can stay firm and not fall.
What are the effects of prejudices?
There are many people who die, not just for physical death. but also intellectual, mental. Racism leaves women, men and young people sick. The child, when looking for school and the teacher is evangelical, is often demonized. There is a very bad way to make this hate grow: bbadization. It is cultural to treat the other evil, it is cultural invade terreiro.
Today is a day of celebration?
For me, this is not a holiday, even 19 years after his death and 12 years of this law and we see that cases of religious intolerance continue to multiply. Even if the public power is attentive, the Constitution stipulates that the state is secular. In practice, more effective actions are still needed to combat this religious hatred. We recently had a terreiro that was invaded by thieves. The babalorixá of the messenger's house was bruised, in addition to all the violations of the sacred.
The advance I see is a bit of the sensitivity of the authorities. We have the Department of Reparation, the Sepromi (Secretariat for the Promotion of Equality), which carries out actions. We have the Nelson Mandela Reference Center for the Fight Against Racism, which ends with a diagnosis of what is happening.
According to Sepromi, in 2018, there were 47 cases of religious intolerance in Bahia, the highest number of the past five years. What is the reason for so many prejudices?
In addition to the lack of tolerance and the love of the neighbor, it is also a lack of information. You can not hate and dislike what you do not know. The output is education, through education we can transform a lot. People need to know what candomblé is. Candomblé is a beautiful religion, it is a religion like any other. We love the power of nature, we do not worship the devil. We do not do evil, the harm is in the human being. There are good people among candomblés and negative people, as well as in neo-Pentecostals, for example. if she grows up. We must use Dial 100, Dique Racismo and search the reference center. When you have invaded the terreiro or you feel that you are being violated as a citizen, as a religious, you must report it, you must go to the police station and file a complaint. Even if the delegate or the clerk does not understand us, we have to look for our right.
Is this a special space?
The Xangó Stone is the extension of our homes. We are here today to strengthen the peace march that will take place here on February 10. Mother Iara is a community leader who has put a lot of things in place, but I believe that is still very little. These are advances, but we did not have to be here to seek redress.
It is a difficult year in which political leaders are driven into a lack of ethics and incitement to hatred. I ask people to be sensitive. It is a moment of reflection and reconstruction. The best religion is the one that makes it better, as the Dalai Lama said.
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