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BANGALORE, JAN. 21. Towards the close of the first evening of evangelist Benny Hinn's `Festival of Blessings,' some people in the crowd walked onstage to claim that Mr. Hinn had cured them of myriad illnesses and conditions. The "miracle march" started with Mr. Hinn proclaiming: "God is talking to people through me." He called on the gathering to raise their hands towards heaven and pray so that His force would pass through them and they would be cured or healed. This session lasted for about 30 minutes after which he urged the healed to come forward. Immediately, Mr. Hinn's volunteers went among the crowd and led some people onstage. They claimed to have been cured of various illnesses, including cancer. Others said they regained the use of their limbs. Several of them jumped up onto the stage and claimed they were, previously, unable to even walk. One said he had been unable to move his neck. "Now I can move it in any direction." Another claimed his failing eyesight had been restored. A visitor from Chennai said he used to lift his wife because she could not move on her own. "She is now cured," he stressed. Some people from Hyderabad said they had suffered from backpain. One reportedly had it for seven years after being involved in an accident. "The pain has disappeared," they said. No "claim" could be investigated because nobody knew these people's history.
Not all convinced
However, presspersons noticed that several people in wheelchairs who had turned up hoping to be able to walk, went back in those same chairs without "being cured." Kumar from Yelahanka, for example, said he has polio. "I came here with high hopes. But I have not been cured," he said. After the "miracles," Mr. Hinn announced that he would give $250,000 for tsunami relief work in South India.
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