Spiritual Healer

Several women have come forward in Brazil to accuse an internationally known self-proclaimed spiritual healer of sexually abusing them under pretext of trying to "cure" them of depression or other problems. The allegations against Joao Teixeira de Faria, 76, better known as "Joao de Deus" ("Joao of God") were made late Friday on a program on the wi...

Pakistan's opposition leader and cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan today said that he has proposed marriage to a woman believed to be a faith healer but denied reports that he had secretly wed her.

Three infant children have been beaten to death in a Myanmar village outside Yangon by a man purporting to be a spiritual healer, who told their families they were possessed by evil spirits.

Nepalese surgeons removed four metal rods measuring up to 15 centimetres (six inches) from a shaman, or traditional healer, who had swallowed them during a trance, doctors said Saturday.

An Indian man, posing as a spiritual healer in Britain, is facing trial for blackmail and high-value fraud in the country, a media report said.

Two women, including one who claimed to be capable of warding off evil spirits, were arrested by the Bangalore police for cheating a family of gold valuables worth Rs 6 lakh.Muskan (22), a resident of New Delhi, recently moved to Bangalore along with her family and was staying in the Kengeri area where she met Shamshad (34). The duo devised a plan ...

Pakistan's controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has approached a spiritual healer for the treatment of his chronic knee pain.

A British Court of Appeal has ruled funeral pyres lawful under British law. Spiritual healer Davendra Ghai had appealed for the right to cremation.

Several women have come forward in Brazil to accuse an internationally known self-proclaimed spiritual healer of sexually abusing them under pretext of trying to "cure" them of depression or other problems. The allegations against Joao Teixeira de Faria, 76, better known as "Joao de Deus" ("Joao of God") were made late Friday on a program on the wi...

Pakistan's opposition leader and cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan today said that he has proposed marriage to a woman believed to be a faith healer but denied reports that he had secretly wed her.

Three infant children have been beaten to death in a Myanmar village outside Yangon by a man purporting to be a spiritual healer, who told their families they were possessed by evil spirits.

Nepalese surgeons removed four metal rods measuring up to 15 centimetres (six inches) from a shaman, or traditional healer, who had swallowed them during a trance, doctors said Saturday.

An Indian man, posing as a spiritual healer in Britain, is facing trial for blackmail and high-value fraud in the country, a media report said.

Two women, including one who claimed to be capable of warding off evil spirits, were arrested by the Bangalore police for cheating a family of gold valuables worth Rs 6 lakh.Muskan (22), a resident of New Delhi, recently moved to Bangalore along with her family and was staying in the Kengeri area where she met Shamshad (34). The duo devised a plan ...

Pakistan's controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has approached a spiritual healer for the treatment of his chronic knee pain.

A British Court of Appeal has ruled funeral pyres lawful under British law. Spiritual healer Davendra Ghai had appealed for the right to cremation.