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Tattoos and body piercings are sinful and evil, warns man of God

Body piercing did not start the other day as the Turkana of Kenya had long pierced the lower lip with an insertion of a small aluminum ornament or an ornament made out of wood.

Dinka men of South Sudan scar their faces with three parallel lines across the forehead in a rugged display of courage to the tribe. The marking is common as initiation pattern to adulthood besides being marks of identity and beauty.

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