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First Place
Barbara Davidson The Dallas Morning News
"NIGERIAN FAITH HEALERS"
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It's not what many think of when they imagine a
Catholic Mass: speaking in tongues, rolling on the ground in a trance,
instant curing of diseases. But in Nigeria, Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and
traditional African faiths overlap. Father Ejike Mbaka draws tens of
thousands to a vacant lot every week for an all-night healing service.
Scholars say Father Mbaka and his brand of Catholicism symbolize the impact
that Christianity's rapid expansion in the Third World could have on the
faith: pushing mainline religion toward the supernatural The Adoration
Grounds aren't large enough to hold the more than 20,000 people who want to
attend Father Mbaka's services, leaving some to line the walls outside.
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