“I Believe in Faith Healing”

“Carl and Raylene Worthington told detectives that they never considered calling a doctor, even as their 15-month-old daughter deteriorated and died.

‘I don’t believe in them,’ Carl Worthington said of doctors. ‘I believe in faith healing.’” [story]

11-Year Old Girl Dies After Prayer for Healing

11-Year old Madeline Neuman died of a treatable form of diabetes. The police chief said that her parents believed she would be healed if they just kept praying and called more people to help pray. [story]

1 Corinthians 11:4

“A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man charged with stabbing his son Sunday afternoon because the son failed to remove his hat while two attended church services earlier in the day.” [story]

Actress Falls to Her Death in Church Christmas Play

Keri Shryock fell more than 20 feet during the Dec. 17 opening night of a Christmas show Crossroads Community Church and landed headfirst on the concrete floor, and she died the following day. [story]

Elephant’s First Mating

“Of the 900 elephants that pass through Samburu National Reserve, Daballen and Lentipo can each recognize about 500 individuals on sight… [Daballen] can point out a youngish female limping piteously on three legs and explain that she’s Babel, of the same family, probably crippled when she was mounted too young by a bull.” National Geographic, September 2008, pg 49 [story]