Cancer patient received physical abuse from "Faith Healer"

that is utterly awful! i cannot believe stuff like this goes on in the world! i watched a programme once about a woman who shakes babies as a form of teaching and nurturing for them! i'm telling you now, if i had a baby and someone shook it, it'd be the last thing they ever did!! some people are just cold hurtful people, and just because they stick the word therapy on something doesn't make it any different from any other form of abuse. utterly disgusting.

I can understand how desperate one must be to try anything. When you have an illness you can go through so many horrible experiences, including some extremely aggressive therapies from radiation and so forth therapies that leave you weak and feeling defeated, you maybe feel like you've tried so many things with no results that anything, no matter how extreme is worth it. I mean, how far would you go if you had a condition that could possibly kill you and all the medical aids that were tried and given by doctors didn't work, you went through months of suffering, would you not also try everything you could in a last resort? I think in the healer case they took advantage of this, they took advantage of the innocence, desperation, at this point low self-esteem. I did not see this on TV, only heard about it in your post, but I hope that the person gets a sentence for the abuse that he contributed to an already suffering person. Some people are such extremists, they do crazy things to other people and they actually believe it works, there was a case here that they tortured their family member and forced the family members siblings to assists, making the person eat tiles, smashing their body with hammers... all this because they believed the person was possessed or a witch, something along those lines. People that harm people like that should be given a lengthy sentence, because there will always be people who are so desperate to try it that will fall into their hands, they will brainwash people into being tortured and brainwash others into following their ways and teach them to torture other in this alleged healing. It's atrocious to think how crazy the human race can be, how twisted, evil, people can get, but unfortunately there are a lot of people who get pleasure in causing others suffering and in this case finding a way to maybe do it and still make money from it. It's horrible and extreme measures should be taken with these people to stop an epidemic of these beliefs that torture heals. It's as outdated as people thinking that you needed to bleed someone to heal them, before people had the mental capacity to understand that certain practices have no place in this world. And the worst thing going through my mind at this time is thinking people most probably took their children to this person also but we will most probably never know.

We can't really blame the cancer patient for believing on the faith healer. She must have been in a state of great depression and hopelessness. What she must not have done was to leave. I mean, cancer patients are supposed to be with people especially with their family. I bet the patient felt lonely because no one was with her. Her family should have been with her. She could have been prevented from going to that quack doctor.

That is just awful, that fake "faith healer" should be sued. I have never heard of a faith healer healing using those methods- those were like torture. faith healers only heal by touch and prayers... I hope some people would stop pretending to be faith healers just for money or fame.

Hey! thanks for this one. Actually I don't heard this from the news. I will look for this later. That is so bad, the method used is not really acceptable. I know for sure many are still blinded by this faith healers which are just quack doctors. People are so attracted to them because they are relying on supernatural, divine powers to heal their physical problems. My grandmother used to consult faith healers when she had some herpes or blisters on her back but no bad things happened to her and it never really cured her problems.

It is unfortunate that another story had to be told, pertaining to the sick and 'strange practitioners' such as that 'faith healer' you referred to in the story. Abuses of any kind should not be accommodated by anyone- whether they are healthy or sick; especially when these abuses are being meted out to the sick by a 'faith healer'!! The unacceptable behaviors of this 'faith healer' continue to add to the catalogue of abusive activities being exposed to the public; and contribute to the tarnishing of the reputations (and profession) of all well thinking, 'faith healers'. Given the evidence presented, I suggest that this 'faith healer' be prosecuted under the law.

Hi kei! I was able to hear that episode but i wasn't able to watch it. it feels heartbreaking that the woman who's sick is seeking for a cure and not for torture. as for the son and the father. What's good for them is to accept the fact that the mother will leave them, but i pity them because the woman had just suffered illness from cancer and did suffered more because of the torture. I just hope God will provide justice for the woman. and that faith killer should be brought in jail!

It's really a risky thing to entrust our medical condition to faith healers. I can't fault the family though for resorting to these healers. Sometimes when a family member is terminally ill, we resort to extra-medical means. The problem however is that a lot of these faith healers are quacks. It's difficult to find someone who could actually heal a person's illness. I do hope that whoever this faith healer is should have been held also accountable for the physical abuse he had inflicted on the mother so that these "fake" healing practices of his would stop.

hello kei, I just can't understand people who believes such kind of medication. I do not judge those who believes with faith healers (sometimes patient/s resort to every possible way due to desperation) I hope those faith/fake healers will be punished for their mistake. I agree with the family- the suffering and torture is unacceptable.

I wasn't able to what that episode in tulfo but based on your stories, I really felt bad for what happened to the woman and got really mad on the faith healer who had tortured her. He doesn't have any conscience and heart! He even made a sick woman more suffer than healing her. The faith healer should be punished of what he have done!