João Teixeira de Faria, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Brazilian faith healer
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Place of Birth: Cachoeira de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil
About João Teixeira de Faria
- João Teixeira de Faria (born June 24, 1942), known also as João de Deus (John of God), is a Brazilian purported medium and "psychic surgeon".
- He is based in Abadiânia, Brazil, where he runs the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola, a "spiritual healing center".
- James Randi and Joe Nickell have exposed his healing procedures as involving nothing more than carnival tricks, and there is no evidence that the benefits that have been reported by patients are anything more than placebo effects.In 2018, after over 600 accusations of sexual abuse, he turned himself into police.
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