Faith healers vow to confront fake pastors

Kumasi, Nov 16, GNA - The Ghana Association of Faith Healers, has vowed to provide legal services for women duped and sexually exploited under the guise of spiritual protection by pastors and spiritualists.

It said that the nation had had enough of tricks by pastors and the Association would make sure that they no longer acted with impunity. Reverend J.B. Danquah, National President of the Association, said these when he was addressing general meeting of the group in Kumasi.

He urged victims of fraudsters and charlatans, parading themselves as Prophets, to report to such people to the Secretariat of the Association for legal assistance.

Rev Danquah said that the Association was determined to ensure that best practices t were upheld at prayer camps, healing centres and spiritual churches.

He said activities of faith healers and traditional birth attendants were now regulated by law with the promulgation of Act 575 and those operating under this law could get away with brazen disregard for acceptable standards.

Human rights violations, presumptive diagnosis and unsanitary conditions at the camps and traditional health service centres must cease, Rev Danquah.

He expressed worry that for fear of stigmatization, some victims of mischievous spiritualists and traditional medicine practitioners keep their ordeal to themselves.

Rev. Danquah appealed to the media to support the Association in the crusade to restore sanity in the country.

Mr Kwaku Owusu, the General Secretary, said the Association would identify licensed and accredited faith healers and traditional birth attendants and make sure that they operated within in the law.

Faith healing alongside traditional, complimentary and alternative health care interventions such as homeopathy, reflexology and naturopathy provide cure and healing for infirmity of some of Ghanaians.