Faith Healing
Faith healing refers to healing that occurs supernaturally, as the result of prayer rather than the use of medicines or the involvement of physicians or other conventional medical care. Such healings are often referred to as miracles.
The term is best known in connection with Christianity, but is also used in other religions. It is further used in relation to such occult, New Age healing techniques as Reiki.
Some individuals, groups or churches have extremist teachings and practices regarding faith healing — often resulting in needless deaths. Many such instances are related in this news archive.
Friday September 16, 2011
Dale and Shannon Hickman • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog: 
Defense attorneys representing Dale and Shannon Hickman tried to turn the tables Thursday by making the Clackamas County district attorney’s office the focus of their clients’ faith-healing homicide trial.Thursday September 15, 2011
Dale and Shannon Hickman • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog: 
Dale and Shannon Hickman belong to the Followers of Christ Church, an Oregon City congregation that believes in faith-healing over medical care. The church has a long history in Oregon of child deaths involving treatable illnesses.
Monday September 12, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog: The Hickmans are members of the Followers of Christ, an Oregon City faith-healing church. The congregation has a long history of children dying from curable conditions because parents rejected medical care in favor of spiritual treatments.
Thursday August 4, 2011
Faith Healing • RNB's Religion News Blog: 
When Kay Burdette’s 17-year-old son became sick with flu-like symptoms, she chose the same prescription she has used for years: prayer. This time, though, her son Jesse did not recover and Burdette was charged with manslaughter
Saturday June 25, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog • Timothy and Rebecca Wyland: 
An Oregon City couple who treated their infant daughter with faith healing rather than take her to a doctor were sentenced today in Clackamas County circuit court to 90 days in jail and three years probation. The Wylands are members of the Followers of Christ Church, theologically a cult of Christianity, whose extreme faith healing beliefs and practices have left a trail of dead children in its wake.
Wednesday June 8, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog • Timothy and Rebecca Wyland: A jury spent one hour deliberating Tuesday before unanimously finding an Oregon City couple guilty of felony criminal mistreatment for treating their infant daughter with faith-healing rather than taking her to a doctor.The Wylands face up to five years in prison but are likely to receive probation and possibly some time in jail. They will be sentenced June 24.
Tuesday June 7, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog • Timothy and Rebecca Wyland: The defense rested today in the faith-healing trial of Timothy and Rebecca Wyland after bringing a doctor to the stand who praised the Wylands’ compliance with court-ordered medical care for their infant daughter, Alayna. The Wylands belong to the Followers of Christ church, which embraces faith healing and rejects medical care.
Friday June 3, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog • Timothy and Rebecca Wyland: Family members of a faith-healing couple accused of neglecting their baby girl’s medical needs defended them in court Thursday. The Wylands are charged with first-degree criminal mistreatment for failing to provide medical care to Alayna, now 17 months old. State child-welfare workers took custody of the girl in July to treat the growth, called a hemangioma, that covered her left eye and spread into her eye socket. Doctors testified that the expanding mass was threatening her eyesight.
Wednesday June 1, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog • Timothy and Rebecca Wyland: As the trial of two cult members accused of medical neglect of their daughter continues, a doctor testified the girl has permanent developmental damage to her eye and may require surgery. Defense attorneys in turn argued that the parents are the victims of both religious discrimination and an overly aggressive bureaucracy that snatched heir daughter.
The Followers of Christ Church has left a trail of dead children in its wake.
Monday May 30, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog: The trial of Timothy and Rebecca Wyland for the medical neglect of their now 18-months-old daugher got underway last Friday.belong to the Followers of Christ Church, a cult of Christianity whose extreme faith healing beliefs and practices have left a trail of dead children in its wake.
Tuesday May 24, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog • Timothy and Rebecca Wyland: Jury selection for two more members of the Followers of Christ Church is set to begin Tuesday, a day after the Oregon Senate passed a bill to crack down on faith-healing parents who don’t take their children to the doctor. Tim and Rebecca Wyland are the third set of parents who belong to the Oregon City church who will stand trial for not getting their child medical attention.
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog:
Oregon is on the brink of ending the legal protection for parents who rely on faith healing instead of seeking medical care for their children. House Bill 2721 was sparked by the heavily publicized deaths of children whose families belong to an Oregon City church, the Followers of Christ.
Friday April 29, 2011
Faith Healing • Madeline Neumann • RNB's Religion News Blog: 
The Wisconsin parents convicted of second degree reckless homicide in the death of their daughter, Madeline Kara Neumann have lost their appeal for new trials. Marathon County Judge Vincent Howard ruled this afternoon to deny the post-conviction motions of Dale and Leilani Neumann.
Wednesday March 30, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • Neil Jeffrey Beagley: 
An Oregon City couple convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of their teenage son will be released from prison on Wednesday. Jeff and Marci Beagley were found guilty last year of failing to seek medical help for their 16-year-old son, Neil, who died in June 2008. The young man died of kidney failure after developing a urinary tract infection.
Friday March 11, 2011
Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon) • RNB's Religion News Blog: The Oregon House approved a bill Thursday that would remove legal protection for parents who choose faith healing over medical intervention when treating their children.
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