Pentecostal pastors in Africa push prayer, not drugs, for people with HIV
This is not going to be good at all. These pastors probably couldn’t tell if they actually healed someone to save their own lives. I’m not really completely anti religion, however some of these poor, ignorant, and probably desperate people may die much sooner now thanks to these “faith healers,” who have convinced them that they’ve been cured, when they really haven’t.
NAIROBI, Kenya — 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.
The “cure” is not free, and some people say they shell out their life savings to receive a miracle blessing and quit taking the drugs.
“I believe people can be healed of all kinds of sickness, including HIV, through prayers,” said Pastor Joseph Maina of Agmo Prayer Mountain, a Pentecostal church on the outskirts of Nairobi. “We usually guide them. We don’t ask for money, but we ask them to leave some seed money that they please.”
And just as I would have expected, unfortunately,
But the controversial ceremonies are raising red flags as believers’ conditions worsen, and a debate has opened over whether science or religion should take the lead in the fight against the AIDS epidemic.
