SOUTH AFRICA:
Parliament of South Africa, Mr. Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (President of South Africa), and Mr. Themba Wakashe (Director Department of Arts and Culture South Africa).
Zolani Mkiva, chairman of the Makhonya Royal Trust, said the tournament has to to be blessed in true "African style" and that they are going to slaughter cows in sacrifice at each of the 10 stadiums to be used for the event.
The traditional sacrifice methods are GROSSLY inhumane and full of cruelty! You can view HOW it is done here: <Click>

ROMAN TEMPLE:
At the temples, Romans prayed and made ritual worship offerings of a small gift or animal sacrifices to their Roman Gods, the most common 12 are as follows:
#Jupiter- King of the Gods
#Juno- Queen of the Gods
#Neptune- God of the Sea
#Pluto- God of Death
#Apollo- God of Prophesy
#Mars- God of War
#Venus- Goddess of Love
#Mercury- Messenger of the Gods
#Saturn- Father of Jupiter
#Uranus- Father of Saturn
#Diana- Goddess of the Hunt
#Cupid- God of Love

SOUTH AMERICA Candomble:
Candomblé is a religion practiced by the "povo de santo" (people of saint) primarily in South America.  They say it is inspired by older African beliefs.  It definitely makes much use of animal sacrifice.   It believes in the 'soul' of nature so anthropologists label it a form of Animism. 

NEPAL:
World's biggest animal sacrifice' held in NepalUp to a million Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday to witness the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals in a mass sacrifice that has drawn widespread criticism.

ARGENTINA:
Sacrifice of 15,000 buffaloes. At least 15,000 buffalo and "countless" goats and birds were sacrificed in a temple in southern Nepal, organizers said Wednesday, a ritual billed as the single biggest animal slaughter on earth. Hindus in Nepal routinely offer animals for sacrifice to appease deities, especially power goddesses, for good luck and prosperity.

ASATRU (Germanic Paganism) Religion:
The ancient origins of Germanic religion date from prehistoric times and are thus unknown. Most of what is known about Germanic religion is derived from descriptions by Latin writers such as Julius Caesar (1st cent. BC) and Tacitus (1st cent. AD), descriptions of early Christian missionaries, and archaeological evidence including cult objects, amulets, grave goods, and place names.
In the old Germanic religion, the central practice was animal and human sacrifice, conducted in the open or in groves and forests. Roman authors repeatedly mention the sacrifice of prisoners of war to the gods of victory. One detailed description of a sacrificial feast is given in a saga about a king of Norway, in which cattle were slaughtered, blood was sprinkled inside and out, the meat was consumed and toasts were drunk to Odin, Njörd, and Freyr. Sacrifices of a more private kind might include the sacrifice of an ox to a god or smearing an elf mound with bull's blood.

ATHEISM :
If there is one thing that the “new atheism” (and much of the old atheism) is sure of, it is that religion is unrepentantly violent, even the root of all violence. James Haught wrote two books in the 1990s — Holy Hatred: Religious Conflicts of the ’90s and Holy Horrors: An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness —  chronicling the “phenomenon of hatred, murder, and mayhem repeated over and over again in the name of one religion or another.” Sam Harris formally launched the new atheism with his bookThe End of Faith, subtitled Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, which opens with a vignette about a suicide bomber, warning that religious beliefs “are leading us, inexorably, to kill each other.”
Sacrifice. While some thinkers have devoted attention to sacrifice (like Rene Girard in Violence and the Sacred), it has not received its due, given its widespread and ancient practice. Sacrifice can be defined as surrendering, often by destroying (which for living things means killing) some object or property, in attempts to communicate with and gain some benefits from supernatural beings. The number of animals that have been tortured over the eons for religious purposes is imponderable; animals, of course, have not been the only victims. Many societies, including the Aztec and other ancient kingdoms (like the Dahomey in Africa or the Hawaiian), sacrificed humans and other living beings to their spiritual and human superiors; there is also evidence that the ancient Hebrews may have practiced child sacrifice for a time, which resonates with the single greatest Torah/Old Testament sacrificial act, the offering of Isaac by Abraham. Certainly, in the Harvard Theological Review Christian Eberhart bluntly states, “Sacrifice is the basic category of Israelite religion” with elaborate instructions for the types and practices of animal sacrifice. Christianity, of course, is an extension and completion of the sacrificial model, with the god sacrificed to “cleanse” humanity — an example of the “purifying quality of violence” mentioned above.

JUDAISM : 100 BC to AD 200
Blood sacrifice is a fundamental aspect of most antiquarian religious belief systems including what would become the Judeo-Christian religions of the western world. Christianity would view the crucifixion of Jesus as the ultimate blood sacrifice and replace animal sacrifice with the sacraments of wine and bread taking the symbolic place of flesh and blood. But how was animal sacrifice carried out and how did it evolve in the context of the Greco-Roman period within which Christianity was to emerge? "Animal Sacrifice In Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, And Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200" by Maria-Zoe Petropoulou (a teacher on the International Baccalaureate program of the Hellenic American Foundation, Athens) specifically addresses animal sacrifice, sources and methodology in ancient Greece, the character of Jewish sacrificial ritual worship and how it differed from the Greeks, and relationship of the early Christians (a widely persecuted minority within the Roman empire) to animal sacrifice up to AD 200. Of special note is Professor Petropoulou's epilogue 'A Suggestion Concerning the Reasons for the Cessation of Animal Sacrifice'. Enhanced with an extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index, "Animal Sacrifice In Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, And Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200" is a seminal work of meticulous scholarship that has been critiqued by the Oxford Classical Monograph Series' Faculty Board of Classics, and therefore is very strongly recommended as an informed and informative addition to personal, academic, and community library reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

JEWESH :
Animal slaughters as carried out by other religions and communities:

* Judaism.
* Mithraism.
* Satanism.
* Judaism
The Jewish law details the methods that are to be used during the ritual slaughtering of animals, known as shechitah. The person who performs the killing in called a shochet. (Shechitah and shochet are both from the Hebrew root, transliterated; shin-chet-tav, which means to kill or eliminate.)

In the Jewish community birds and mammals that are to be eaten are slaughtered according to Jewish law (Deut. 12:21). Jews may not eat animals that died of natural causes (Deut. 14:21) or eat animals killed by other animals. No flaws or diseases must be present in the animals. These restrictions do not apply to fish; only to the flocks and herds (Num. 11:22).

During shechitah the animal is killed with a quick, deep stroke across the throat with a perfectly sharp blade with no nicks or unevenness.

VEDAS :
Various Aryan tribes migrated to the indian subcontinent in large hoards from what is present-day Iran through the famous Khyber Pass. They rapidly spread to the area known as the Saptsindhu (the land of seven rivers), which included eastern parts of present-day Afghanistan, the Punjab (in Pakistan and also in India), and fringes of western Uttar Pradesh.

The Aryans soon mingled with the local people and adopted an agrarian way of life after settling down in small, organized communities in northwestern India. The knowledge of horse riding and a powerful cavalry was the main cause of the Aryans spreading rapidly into various regions in India, as they could easily suppress their rivals.

The early Vedic religion was based on nature worship. Sun, moon, wind, rain, and other natural phenomena were worshipped as gods. Prayers were organized and gods were invoked by chanting of religious hymns and mantras. Animal sacrifice was a common practice. Ritual sacrifices and prayers were offered to gods for the well being of people and cattle and to grant more wealth and to be kind to them. Cow was not considered a sacred animal, but there were frequent struggles between various tribes over the control of cows. 

Animal Sacrifice in Shakti Worshipping :

Animal Sacrifice came from our great grandparents and relatives from back home when they diden't have anything to offer and they had farms so they gave animals such as pigs goats sheeps roosters etc and then in generations time there children had to take over the worshipping of sacrifice because they use a black rooster to mother kateri in the form of fiigal amma to take away all sicknesses and pains in the body so that rooster could take it then its killed after and gose into the water and then a black pig or goat sacrifice is also done for mother kateri in her darker form parmeshwari and for her sister mariamman in her form as bhadra kali to bring back the heritage and culture of our ancestors and the diety that comes to kill the rooster is master Khaal bhairo in the form as Orgar baba and half dutch. the reason they use the three masters as the gate keepers is because since Kal bhairo gaurded the village of madurai we worship him as the gate keeper and muneswaran the village diety of South india in little streets there would be a tall statue of a man sitting and they use him in his form Dharma munee for wealth and to be protected and sangili is worshipped as the darker side of the hindu culture and some worship him and madurai veeran as the left path to reach god because of the places and things they can be around thats why they are needed to use animal sacrifice such as pigs roosters and goats.

SUDALAIMADAN :
Ayyanar or Sathanar worship is a very ancient ancestral clan-based worship system linked to nature and fertility worship. The festivals of Ayyanars are celebrated in Sacred Groves during spring season by all the related clan. Ayyanar shrines are usually located at the peripheries or boundaries of rural villages and the deity is seen riding a horse with a sword. Weapons such as a trident or a lance are also associated with the shrine. Most officiating priests are non-Brahmins and derive from local lineages that had initiated the cult centers generations ago.
The worship pattern is non-agamic and is associated with sacrificial offerings of pure vegetarian food. However animals such as chicken and goats are offered to few of the selected 21 associate deities (Kaval deivangal) such as Karuppa samy, Sudalai Maadan samy and some other Amman deities located within Ayyanar temple for favors. In return the local priest might offer holy flowers or Veeputhi (holy ash) to the worshippers. Folk Tales like Koothhu and Folk arts like Villupattu are enacted to bring out the message of the Ayyanar folk story to one and all.
In South India, Aiyanar God worshipped in open grounds surrounded by trees holds an important position in the local villages because of the values installed in family and community life. Aiyanar System is the base for forming large family clan associations and maintaining family values in rural areas.

ISLAM :