healing prayer

The Trebek effect: The benefits of well wishes

By Richard Gunderman — June 17, 2019
(The Conversation) — As a practicing physician who teaches large numbers of medical students and residents, I believe that sharing well wishes benefits us in all sorts of ways that are not reflected in medical outcomes.

Most Americans pray for healing

By Adelle M. Banks — April 22, 2016
(RNS) Prayer, a scholar finds, is no “fringe activity,” but rather a frequent form of treatment for medical problems.

Pentecostal pastors in Africa push prayer, not drugs, for people with HIV

By Fredrick Nzwili — December 4, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) At prayer healing services in some Pentecostal churches, pastors invite people infected with HIV to come forward for a public healing, after which they burn the person’s anti-retroviral medications and declare the person cured.
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