'Do You Believe in Miracles?' How celebrity faith healer was exposed as rapist and abuser
By Mark Saunokonoko • Senior Journalist
6:44am Jan 3, 2022
Over four decades, he worked as a celebrity faith healer in Abadiânia, a small town in central Brazil.
It was there - conducting bizarre and unproven medical procedures - that João Teixeira de Faria became known as John of God, building a legion of believers across the world, including a band of loyal followers in Australia who were happy to open their wallets for his supposed miracle-giving touch and ethereal blessings.
Each week, people from all corners of the globe flocked in their thousands to John of God's compound, Casa de Dom Inacio, 130km south-west of Brasilia.
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But it was regular people - often vulnerable - who were John of God's bread and butter.
It was the stream of those visitors which allowed Faria to amass a fortune worth tens of millions of dollars before his world caved in under an avalanche of explosive accusations that he had sexually abused hundreds of women, and claims he had operated an international baby-trafficking ring from his compound.
More:
https://www.9news.com.au/world/joao-teixeira-de-faria-what-happened-to-john-of-god-after-claims-of-sex-abuse/91055ac8-b277-441f-bbd0-98845d8e68a8
"John of God"
(run away, run away! )
