{"id":3565,"date":"2013-06-19T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2013-06-19T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:34:12","slug":"zimbabwe-son-of-witch-doctor-finds-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3565","title":{"rendered":"ZIMBABWE: Son of Witch Doctor Finds Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.godreports.com\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Godreports<\/a>, June 5, 2013<\/p>\n<p>In his village in southern Zimbabwe, people still seek help through witch doctors who offer a portal into the darkness of the supernatural realm. But one young man found healing in the arms of Jesus after his father&#8217;s gods proved impotent.<\/p>\n<p>Nhamo suffered a painful infection that rendered him unable to move from his bed. He spent many days listlessly, barely able to turn over, yet his father refused modern medical care. &#8220;He would not allow me to go to the hospital because he believed he could heal through witchcraft,&#8221; he notes.<\/p>\n<p>One day a team came from a neighboring village to show the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusfilm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">JESUS Film<\/a>. When Nhamo&#8217;s father and mother left him alone, they warned him not to watch the JESUS movie on the evening it was presented in their village&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.godreports.com\/2013\/06\/son-of-witchdoctor-found-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Read the rest of the story<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hdONunibr54\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">watch a video<\/a> that tells this man&#8217;s story (YouTube).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Godreports, June 5, 2013 In his village in southern Zimbabwe, people still seek help through witch doctors who offer a portal into the darkness of the supernatural realm. But one young man found healing in the arms of Jesus after his father&#8217;s gods proved impotent. Nhamo suffered a painful infection that rendered him unable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ZIMBABWE: Son of Witch Doctor Finds Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}