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Blind persons seek cures from Sathya Sai Baba
2008-08-12 12:03:00 ?Ulf told us the other night that the blind middle-aged Danish devotee Henning was told by Baba in an interview that he could cure his blindness, but then Henning would have to be blind in the next life! AS DEFERRED KARMA? (from my Indian visit diary notebook, Sunday 1st November, 1998 ) Ulf was Ulf Sviberg, ...
National group: Faith-based prosecution is first for Wisconsin
2008-05-22 08:27:00 The parents charged with reckless homicide for praying while their 11-year-old daughter died of diabetes are the first people in Wisconsin accused of such a crime, according to a national group that monitors faith-based abuse and neglect of children.
Faith healing: Parents face homicide charges in girl’s death
2008-04-28 21:46:00 A town of Weston couple whose 11-year-old child died after they chose to pray for her healing rather than seek medical attention will be charged Wednesday with second-degree reckless homicide, a prosecutor said today.
Learning not to blame the devil
2008-04-21 17:14:00 Log on to the Web site set up by defense attorneys for the Followers of Christ couple being prosecuted for the faith-healing death of their 15-month-old daughter and you'll find information on religious freedom and several articles on the miracles of faith healing. What you won't find there is a single detail from stories in The Oregonian documenting the pain inflicted on dozens of children born to Followers of Christ over the years.
Faith-healing parents launch Web offensive
2008-04-17 23:38:00 The Oregon City parents charged in the faith-healing death of their young daughter launched a counteroffensive today, debuting a new Web site and pledging a full-scale defense of their Constitutional right to religious freedom.
DA to Decide on Possible Charges in Prayer Healing Death
2008-04-13 13:46:00 Madeline Neumann, 11, died March 23 at her rural Weston home from an undiagnosed but treatable form of diabetes as her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, prayed for her to get better.
Former member of church calls group a cult
2008-04-04 17:33:00 The woman was raised in the Followers of Christ Church and was taught, from her earliest memory, that doctors are a temptation and if you go to one, you are losing faith in God.
A Redirect - Faith-Healing
2008-04-03 20:21:00 I wrote a post in regards to the news of the death of Ava Worthington, whose parents practiced "Faith-Healing" in TheOliveParent blog. Please take a moment to check it out as this blog continues it construction. :) God Bless! Links: Faith-Healing, A Question of Accountability Subscribe to Confessions of an Unchurched Believer by Email
Parents plead not guilty in faith healing death
2008-04-02 12:46:00 Carl Brent Worthington and Raylene Marie Worthington are the first parents prosecuted since Oregon cracked down on faith-healing deaths nine years ago, according to legislators and legal experts. If convicted, they could spend more than six years in prison.
Couple from faith-healing Oregon church indicted in baby?s death
2008-04-01 01:40:00 Until the faith-healing death of an Oregon City girl this month, members of the Followers of Christ Church appear to have lost just one child to sickness since 1999, when Oregon banned parents from treating gravely ill children solely with prayer.
Toddler?s death not the first for Oregon faith healing church
2008-03-31 15:36:00 Carl and Raylene Worthingon are members of the ?Followers of Christ Church? in Oregon City. It's a church with a long history of child deaths., a history that led lawmakers to eliminate legal protections for parents who practice to faith healing.
Chaos and death at faith-healing mission
2008-03-31 09:49:00 It was to be a night of faith-healing miracles - but the death of one person and pandemonium outside the Johannesburg Stadium marred Pastor Chris Oyakhilome's "night of bliss" on Friday.
Parents indicted in faith-healing case
2008-03-30 09:11:00 Oregon City couple are charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of their daughterAn Oregon City couple whose 15-month-old daughter died this month of medically treatable conditions surrendered to police Friday night hours after a Clackamas County grand jury indicted them.They are at the heart of a case testing a state law that bars faith healing when it could endanger a child's life.Based on the jury's findings, arrest warrants were issued for Carl Brent Worthington, 28, and Raylene Worthington, 25, on charges of second-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal mistreatment in the March 2 death of their daughter, Ava.At 8:30 p.m., the pair voluntarily surrendered at the Clackamas County Jail, said Detective Jim Strovink, a sheriff's office spokesman. They were held on $250,000 bail each.Television reporters soon descended on the jail's entrance, reacting to a tip that the husband and wife would post the $25,000 apiece needed to avoid spending the weekend in jail...
By: ExChristian.net
Oregon City parents indicted in death of 15-month-old girl
2008-03-29 07:49:00 An Oregon City couple whose 15-month-old daughter died this month of medically treatable conditions surrendered to police tonight hours after a grand jury indicted them.
Charges possible in diabetes death
2008-03-29 07:17:00 "Our feeling is it was an unnecessary death," a police official said. "After everything else is said and done, it was unnecessary for the 11-year-old to die. She could have easily been treated and had a long, loving life here on Earth."
3 siblings removed from home of parents whose faith healing attempts result
2008-03-29 06:43:00 The three siblings of a girl who died of diabetes that went untreated as her parents prayed instead of taking her to a doctor have been removed from the home during an investigation, police said Friday.
Vision led mother to lay on hands, share Spirit
2008-03-28 17:06:00 Excerpts from posts made to a discussion forum by the mother of a girl who died after attempted faith healing.
Mother of girl who died after faith healing attempts posts on site that cal
2008-03-28 16:58:00 The mother of an 11-year-old town of Weston girl who died after her family tried to heal her illness through prayer had participated in a Web site that shares stories of miracle cures for everything from brain tumors to worn vehicle tires.
Faith, medicine collide, and a young girl dies
2008-03-27 10:45:00 "At what point do religious beliefs take over for medical help? And the flip of the coin is at what point are the parents responsible for the health and welfare of their children," the police chief said. "These people truly believed their prayer and faith would heal their daughter. They have no question about that." [video]
Faith Healing
2008-03-27 07:39:00 God is not a gumball machine–you can’t just pop in a prayer, turn a cosmic crank, and expect God to answer the prayer in exactly the way that you expected Him to. God promises to listen to prayer, and listen only. Despite the dramatic hyperbolic language (such as Mark 11:24 and others) used by ...
Death of child may put Oregon faith healing law to test
2008-03-25 09:55:00 If prosecuted, Ava Worthington's parents would be the first members of Oregon City's Followers of Christ, a fundamentalist Christian denomination, to face criminal charges for failing to seek medical treatment for a gravely ill child. Of dozens of children buried since the 1950s in the Followers of Christ Church cemetery south of Oregon City, at least 21 could have been saved by medical intervention, according to a 1998 analysis by The Oregonian.
Tennessee Supreme Court to hear appeal from alleged cult leader
2008-01-30 12:27:00 The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of an alleged cult leader whose teenage follower died from cancer after her mother heeded his advice to rely on prayer rather than medicine.
A Faith Healer in Pakistan
2008-01-07 17:57:00 A ?pumpkin? a day keeps ?faith healer? away By Gulzar Baig VEHARI, Jan 6: Kaddu Pir has become a household sobriquet in this neck of the wood as the self-acclaimed spiritual healer ?treats and operates upon? the ailing visitors to his place by ?chopping off a pumpkin? much to the satisfaction of the people. What astonishes many ...
HURT, FAITH, HEALING
2007-09-11 04:49:00 PLEASE PRAY MY FIANCE GETS OUT WED. OF THE HOSPITAL WELL AND PRAY FOR MY DEPRESSION. THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL!! - SONYA
By: Prayers Online
Parents who want God to save girl lose case
2007-07-19 08:14:00 A family judge at the High Court yesterday gave the go-ahead for a seven-month-old girl, who has only one year to live, to receive a bone marrow transplant that has a 50 per cent chance of giving her a normal life, but a 10 per cent chance of killing her.
Two San Jose brothers accused in faith-healing scam
2007-06-02 08:59:00 Two brothers from San Jose who received thousands of dollars by providing treatments as "faith/mystic" healers are facing charges of grand theft, according to San Jose police Sgt. Enrique Garcia.
FAITH HEALING EXAMINED
2007-01-11 04:41:01 ?FAITH? HEALING EXAMINEDA review of Brad Burke, Does God Still Do Miracles, ( Colorado Springs : Victor, 2006) ISBN: 13-978-0-7814-4282-4 160 ppBy Forrest Wayne SchultzJanuary 4, 2007 The erroneous theological notions of modern ?faith healers?, such as Benny Hinn, have been discussed by the researchers in the Spiritual Counterfeits Project and similar ministries. The main emphasis of the book under review here is upon studying the actual results Hinn achieves and how the methodology he employs accounts for those results. The gist of the matter is that the kind of psychological atmosphere generated by Hinn?s mass meetings can produce an emotional ?high? which can temporarily alleviate some of the symptoms of sick people, but that no actual cures are produced, contra Hinn?s claims. The author, Brad Burke, is a medical doctor who provides in his book a great deal of helpful medical information which is germane to the subject...
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