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Controversial Faith Healer Visits Atlanta

Posted: 7:54 am EDT April 3, 2006Updated: 6:03 pm EDT April 12, 2006

John Pruitt examined two controversial stories recently on Channel 2 Action News Primetime.

The first involves a Brazilian healer who recently visited Atlanta on his first trip to the U.S. in 30 years.

Some people call him a miracle worker and thousands of people around the world flock to his facility in Brazil to be spiritually, emotionally, or physically healed.

People from all over the nation traveled to Atlanta to see John of God spiritually heal in a Cobb County hotel for three days.

While John of God does both visible and "invisible" surgeries in Brazil, he did not perform any physical surgeries during his visit to Atlanta.

Channel Two reporter Jeff Dore traveled to Brazil to see what happens to Atlantans and others who go to see him and talked to Atlanta experts on why John of God has obtained such a superstar status in healing.

Also, the program followed a Roswell family's fight to get their child, Jackson Bortz, out of state custody. DFCS removed Jackson from his home after the mysterious death of his infant brother Dylan. But he was returned to his family the day after our special aired.

We talked to DFCS Director, Mary Dean Harvey about how often children are removed from the home by DFCS investigators & police.

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