The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) has issued a strong warning against claims of faith-based healing for serious medical conditions, saying such assertions pose grave risks to public health and violate professional medical ethics. In a statement released…[Continue Reading...]
Several members of an extremist Christian cult convicted of killing an eight-year-old girl – who spent days in agony as they prayed for God to heal her – are already eligible to apply for parole. The group, known as the…[Continue Reading...]
A Cambridge graduate who died after refusing chemotherapy was ‘adversely influenced’ by her conspiracy theory mum, a coroner had ruled. Paloma Shemirani, 23, collapsed on July 19 last year and was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital where she died…[Continue Reading...]
Here’s everything you need to know about Compass: Cult of the Saints, the ABC documentary investigating the tragic death of Elizabeth Struhs and the dangerous cult-like practices of The Saints. To watch Compass: Cult of the Saints in the US,…[Continue Reading...]
How did one man convince 13 other people to let an eight-year-old girl die? This is the question haunting many people of faith in the southern Queensland town of Toowoomba. Elizabeth Struhs died after members of a cult called The…[Continue Reading...]
In February this year fourteen members of Toowoomba-based religious sect the Saints were sentenced to prison in the Queensland supreme court. They group, including her parents, were found guilty of manslaughter over the death of 8 year old Elizabeth Struh's…[Continue Reading...]
A heartbroken mother has shared her painful experience of losing her newborn due to childbirth complications worsened by her church’s strict prohibition of medical care. In a viral account, the woman recounted being raised in a religious sect that forbade…[Continue Reading...]
They started as hospital doctors. Now they claim viruses don’t exist, chemotherapy is poison, and childhood cancer stems from parental failure. Sam and Mark Bailey have become evangelists of a strange new health movement aiming to sow distrust in conventional…[Continue Reading...]
The parents of a newborn who died just days after her birth were sentenced in a Michigan court on June 11. Joshua and Rachel Piland were ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years and as many as 45 years…[Continue Reading...]
In the intersection of faith and medicine, few dilemmas strike as sharply at the heart of ethical and moral reasoning as the decision to refuse life-saving medical treatment on religious grounds. Perhaps the most devastating manifestation of this clash is…[Continue Reading...]
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