'I'm 89 and I saw my homeland rebuilt before - but now I don't believe Gaza
has a future'
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One Palestinian family shares their story of life coming full circle - and
what they believe lies ahead as talk turns to rebuilding Gaza
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The sick and lame who have hit dead ends in conventional medicine are drawn to Abadiania, a tiny town in the green highlands of Goias state, southwest of the capital of Brasilia.
ReplyDeleteFaria says he's not the one curing those who come to him. "It's God who heals. I'm just the instrument."
"Psychic surgeons" are mostly concentrated in Brazil and the Philippines with roots in spiritualist movements that believe spirits of the dead can communicate with the living. Like Faria, they often appear to go into a trance while doing their work, allowing God, dead doctors or other spirits to flow through them.
Such practices have been roundly denounced.