It took a powerful force to compel Connie Price to travel 4,600 miles from her Jackson home to Brazil so a knife could be scraped across her eyeball. That force is faith. Price and her husband, Dan, ...

Brazilian medium Joao de Deus (John of God) (R) sees a patient. Every week using mainly his hands but also armed with scissors, a knife and scalpel, Joao Teixeira de Faria, a self-styled Brazilian ...

John of God grabs what looks like a kitchen knife from a silver tray and appears to scrape it over the right eye of a believer. The "psychic surgeon" then wipes a viscous substance from the blade onto ...

July 14, 2005 -- -- For nearly 30 years, millions have visited the tiny village of Abadiania in remote, central Brazil to see a man some call the most powerful spiritual healer since Jesus and others ...

FILE PHOTO: Brazilian spiritual healer Joao Teixeira de Faria, known as "John of God", arrives at the police station a day after being officially ruled a fugitive, in Goiania, Brazil December 16, 2018 ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

John of God: The Crimes of a Spiritual Healer is the wild four-part documentary series about Brazilian physic and convicted sex offender, João Teixeira de Faria, also known as João de Deus, or perhaps ...

Tales of miracles lure thousands to João Teixeira de Faria's spiritual surgery facility in central Brazil. Some leave "healed," others forever scarred. Profits and influence grow, as do the ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday charged a disgraced Brazilian faith healer with rape and sexual assault, following his arrest after allegations from hundreds of women who said he had ...