CROWDS FLOCK TO GERMAN FAITH HEALER

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1949, Page 5

CROWDS FLOCK TO GERMAN FAITH HEALER

LONDQN, May 22 (Rec. 10 a.m.). —A faith healer is giving the doctors in the small Westphalian town of Herfoyd their biggest headache for years, says the British United Press correspondent at Berlin. While the doctors’ surgeries remain empty, invalids from all parts of Western Germany are flocking to see 42-year-old Bruno Greening, whose “miracle cures” have caused some people of Herford to call him “the twentieth century Jesus Christ.” Greening says that he does not charge his patients fees. The doctors are fighting back with the law behind them. Together with members of the Town Council, they have invoked a law passed in 1883, which forbids faith healers to practice, except in the presence of a fully-qualified doctor. Meanwhile the Herford police are struggling to control the 400 to 500 patients who crowd Groening’s office daily, begging to be cured of their ailments. Some of the cures re- - ported are:— 1. A nine-year-old boy, paralysed since birth, is beginning to walk. 2. A man who went to Groenmg in an invalid chair was able to wheel his chair home after a month’s treatment. * 3. A man whose face was disfigured by purple birthmarks is beginning to lose them after two weeks’ treatment.