Faith healing is essentially how Christians believe someone can be cured from an ailment. They believe the "curing process" involves prayer and rituals that bring a divine presence and power to the ill person.
However, the sick person is often times not cured by "faith healing" and some deaths even occur. In May of last year, a 17 year-old boys appendix burst, but instead of taking him to the hospital, his parents had him anointed with olive oil and prayed over. The boy stayed in bed in agony for several days before he died. And this isn't the only case. The trend of "faith healing" as been going on for several decades, and it is usually by people of the Followers of Christ Church. Parents who chose to "faith heal" instead of taking their kids to the doctor are often convicted of manslaughter, as was the case when a sick infant was denied medical care by his parents in 2011.
It is extremely sad to me that these people think their religion is ordering them to neglect medical care. It's even more unfortunate that, on top of dealing with a dead child, these people also have to deal with being convicted criminals of murder. Hopefully more people will start to realize that medical care can actually make a difference with sick children, and maybe God would have wanted it that way.
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