What’s a Faith-Healing Congregation to Do When Measles Hits?

Monday, September 2nd, 2013

There has been The outbreak of measles in a faith-healing megachurch Eagle Mountain International Church.

EMIC co-pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons denied that she ever opposed vaccination (which is pretty much true. Her co-pastor and husband George Pearsons attributed the end of the measles outbreak not to vaccines, but to a two-minute long communal prayer he led the previous Wednesday for “an outbreak of healing,” Continue reading

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