Volume 2, Issue 1, January 1995


FAITH AND HEALING

Spiritual healers from traditional societies of India, Indonesia, Rarotonga and New Zealand believe that a sick person must first be healed spiritually. They use prayers, chants, incantations and laying on of hands to help a spiritual recovery.

Prayers for the sick are common in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Even if it does not alter the course of the illness, prayer comforts and reverses despair.

In an early 1980's study at the San Francisco General Hospital, coronary care patients who were involved in prayer sessions had fewer complications.

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"Religion NOW" is published in limited edition by the Rev. Ross E. Readhead, B.A., B.D., Certificate of Corrections, McMaster University, in the interest of furthering knowledge and participation in religion. Dialogue is invited and welcomed.