{"id":22977,"date":"2024-06-21T10:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=22977"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:42:30","slug":"cori-bush-claimed-faith-healing-allowed-her-to-heal-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2024\/06\/cori-bush-claimed-faith-healing-allowed-her-to-heal-toddler","title":{"rendered":"Cori Bush Claimed Faith Healing Allowed Her to Heal Toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Missouri representative Cori Bush prepares for a primary election on August 6, old claims of her faith healing abilities have resurfaced to offer fresh fodder for her critics. In her autobiography The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America<\/em>, which was published in 2022, Bush described the time she worked as a faith healer, allegedly healing a disabled toddler so that she could walk and removing a woman\u2019s tumors. \u201cAs I learned how to apply God\u2019s Word to my life in new ways, I better understood the power that was already residing in me. It was there, waiting for me to acknowledge it, to use it. I had the confidence to heal others with God\u2019s power,\u201d wrote Bush<\/a>. Regarding the healing of the disabled toddler, Bush wrote, \u201cThe child had had a bleed in her brain, shortly after she was born, and so couldn\u2019t walk. She had never taken a step in her life. I carried the child from the prayer room in the back of the church out into the sanctuary . . . \u2018Walk,\u2019 I said gently to the three-year-old girl, \u2018you will walk.\u2019 And this girl took her first step. Then another, and another. She walked.\u201d She also described how she met a woman with \u201cvisible tumors on her torso.\u201d \u201cI laid hands on her and prayed, and I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her body.\u201d Bush also made similar claims during a PBS interview.<\/p>\n

Bush is a registered nurse but has often paired her religious beliefs with medical science, calling them a \u201csimilar thing.\u201d Bush\u2019s pastor, Charles Ndifon, claimed he healed Bush of coronavirus by praying for her over the phone. \u201cCori, she had COVID, and she called me from the hospital. And 30 minutes later, she was breathing. Healed. It was that simple,\u201d he told The Washington Free Beacon<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> Medical professionals, however, have cast doubt on Bush\u2019s claims. \u201cI don\u2019t think what she\u2019s claiming happened. Definitely as a physician I would encourage people to seek treatment for cancer and other ailments,\u201d Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, told The New York Post<\/em><\/a>, which was covering the story.<\/p>\n

Bush faced similar criticism from conservatives. \u201cCori Bush, a sitting US congresswoman, claimed to have supernatural powers to heal cancer with the touch of her hand. This is easily one of the most outlandish claims ever made by an American politician in the entire history of this country and yet the journalist expresses no skepticism whatsoever,\u201d wrote The Daily Wire\u2019s <\/em>Matt Walsh<\/a>. Jimmy Dore<\/a>, an independent, also chimed in. \u201cDemocrat Cori Bush has revealed she has the power to cure Tumors just by laying her hands on them\u2026 she tells the story of curing a homeless woman of her tumors & then saying she doesn’t know where that woman is so there is no way for anyone to fact check her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Missouri representative Cori Bush prepares for a primary election on August 6, old claims of her faith healing abilities have resurfaced to offer fresh fodder for her critics. 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