The claims

Chris Gunderson — 16 Years of Feeding-Tube Dependence Resolved After Prayer (2011)

A young man fed exclusively by j-tube since infancy due to congenital gastroparesis reported an immediate ability to eat after intercessory prayer at a 2011 church service; a 2019 peer-reviewed case report documents the resolution and seven-plus symptom-free years.

Jahi McMath — A Family's Challenge to the Definition of Brain Death (2013–2018)

Declared brain-dead at 13 after catastrophic bleeding following airway surgery in Oakland, Jahi McMath was kept on support by her family in New Jersey for four and a half years — long enough for a senior neurologist to conclude she no longer met the criteria under which she had been declared dead — before dying of liver failure in 2018, in a case that has become the sharpest stress test the legal definition of brain death has ever received.

John Smith — Heart Restarted After 15 Minutes Under a Frozen Lake (2015)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A 14-year-old submerged in an icy Missouri lake for over 15 minutes had no pulse for roughly 45 minutes of CPR; his heart restarted moments after his mother prayed aloud over him, and he recovered with normal brain function within weeks.

Lewis Roberts — Breathing Hours Before His Organs Were to Be Donated (2021)

Four days after being struck by a van, 18-year-old Lewis Roberts was declared brain-stem dead and his family consented to organ donation; hours before the retrieval surgery his sister saw breathing activity on his monitor, the declaration was reversed, and he went on to speak, walk miles, and live at home.

Munira Abdulla — Speaking Again After 27 Years in a Minimally Conscious State (2018)

An Emirati woman left unresponsive by a 1991 car crash regained speech in June 2018 — calling her son's name from a German hospital bed — after 27 years in which her family never stopped caring for her or praying for her recovery.

Nurse Vilma Wong and Dr. Brandon Seminatore — The Preemie Who Came Back as Her Colleague (2018)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A Stanford NICU nurse checking in a new resident physician realized his name was familiar — he was the 2-pound, 29-week preemie she had been primary nurse for 28 years earlier, now a doctor caring for babies on the very unit that saved him.

Ann O'Neill — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Remission (1952)

A four-year-old Baltimore girl diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia — then uniformly fatal — experienced complete remission in 1952, verified by a decade of bone marrow tests and accepted by the Vatican as a miracle for the canonization of Elizabeth Ann Seton.

Barbara Cummiskey Snyder — Multiple Sclerosis Remission (1981)

A woman diagnosed with severe multiple sclerosis at age 15, admitted to hospice in 1978, reported an instantaneous and complete recovery on June 7, 1981, with post-healing physician notes confirming absence of all prior MS findings.

Benny Hinn: HBO and NBC Dateline Investigations Find No Verified Healings

Two major broadcast investigations — an HBO documentary in 2001 and repeated NBC Dateline reports — followed up on Benny Hinn's claimed miracle healings and found no medically verified cases among those tracked.

Bethel Church Fails to Heal Apologist Nabeel Qureshi of Stage-4 Cancer (2017)

Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi, diagnosed with stage-4 stomach cancer in 2016, sought healing at Bethel Church in Redding after other medical options were exhausted; he died September 16, 2017, despite the ministry's healing claims.

Deacon Jack Sullivan: Debilitating Spinal Stenosis Resolved After Newman Prayer

An American deacon-in-training nearly paralyzed by spinal stenosis recovered suddenly after praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman — the first miracle recognized toward Newman's canonization.

Delia Knox — Claimed Walking Recovery After 22 Years of Paralysis (2010)

A gospel singer paralyzed in a 1987 car accident stood and walked during a revival service in 2010 after 22 years in a wheelchair, captured on video and widely circulated, but with no publicly verified medical records before or after the event.

Edeltraud Fulda: Addison's Disease Cured at Lourdes

An Austrian woman with documented Addison's disease — chronic adrenal insufficiency — experienced complete and lasting recovery after bathing at Lourdes on August 12, 1950, recognized as miraculous by the Archbishop of Vienna.

Evasio Ganora: Terminal Hodgkin's Lymphoma Cured at Lourdes Baths

An Italian farmer given months to live with advanced Hodgkin's disease rose from his stretcher after immersion in the Lourdes baths in June 1950 and was declared completely well within three days.

Heidi Baker / Iris Global: Healing Claims in Mozambique

Heidi Baker's Iris Global ministry in Mozambique has claimed numerous blind and deaf healings since the 1990s; the STEPP study (2010) measured improvements in 24 participants, but Baker's individual healing testimonies lack independent medical verification.

Jake Finkbonner: Flesh-Eating Bacteria Arrested After Kateri Tekakwitha Relic

A five-year-old Lummi boy's rapidly progressing necrotizing fasciitis stopped spreading and he made a full recovery after his family placed a relic of Kateri Tekakwitha on his body.

James Fulton Engstrom: Stillborn 61 Minutes, Full Recovery — Fulton Sheen's Miracle

An Illinois newborn with no heartbeat for 61 minutes, given up for dead, suddenly revived with no lasting brain damage — proposed as the miracle for Archbishop Fulton Sheen's beatification.

Kathryn Kuhlman's Spinal Cancer Healing (Nolen Follow-up)

A woman declared healed of spinal cancer at a Kuhlman service discarded her brace on stage, suffered spinal collapse the next day, and died four months later — the most-cited case in William Nolen MD's 1974 skeptical investigation.

Maria's Shoe: The Tennis Shoe NDE

In the early 1980s, a cardiac arrest patient named Maria described seeing a worn blue tennis shoe on a specific third-floor window ledge of Harborview Hospital — a detail her social worker said she subsequently verified.

Marie Bailly: Tuberculous Peritonitis Vanishes Before a Nobel Laureate

A dying 23-year-old woman with advanced peritoneal tuberculosis appeared to recover instantly at Lourdes, witnessed and documented by Dr. Alexis Carrel, later winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Marolyn Ford: Instantaneous Vision Restoration After Juvenile Macular Degeneration

Marolyn Ford, legally blind from juvenile macular degeneration for over 12 years, reported complete vision restoration in 1972 after her husband prayed for her; a 2020 GMRI case report in a peer-reviewed journal documented 47 years of sustained normal vision with pre- and post-healing medical records.

Marthe Robin's Fifty-Year Inedia

French mystic Marthe Robin (1902–1981) reportedly lived without food or water for over fifty years, sustained only by the Eucharist, but declined all controlled medical testing and remains contested by Church investigators and historians.

Matteo Pio Colella: Full Recovery from Fulminant Bacterial Meningitis

A seven-year-old from San Giovanni Rotondo was declared clinically lost from acute fulminant meningitis and made a complete recovery — the miracle used for Padre Pio's canonization.

Melissa Villalobos: Placental Abruption Bleeding Stops Instantly After Newman Prayer

A Chicago lawyer hemorrhaging from a partial placental abruption was instantly stopped — and the tear subsequently found to have disappeared — after a brief prayer to Blessed John Henry Newman.

Ornish et al. — Prostate Cancer Progression Halted by Lifestyle Intervention (2005)

A randomized controlled trial of 93 men with biopsy-confirmed prostate cancer found that an intensive lifestyle intervention (vegan diet, exercise, meditation) significantly reduced PSA levels and inhibited cancer cell growth without conventional treatment.

Our Lady of Lourdes (Bernadette Soubirous)

In 1858, a 14-year-old French girl reported 18 apparitions of 'a Lady' in a grotto near Lourdes, where a spring emerged that has since been associated with thousands of reported miraculous cures.

Padre Pio's Stigmata

Italian Capuchin friar Francesco Forgione (Padre Pio) bore visible wounds on his hands, feet, and side for approximately fifty years, examined by multiple physicians who reached contradictory conclusions.

Pam Reynolds: Veridical NDE During Brain Surgery

In 1991, musician Pam Reynolds accurately described surgical instruments and procedures during a hypothermic cardiac standstill in which she was clinically brain-dead, making her case the most scrutinized veridical near-death experience in the medical literature.

Reinhard Bonnke's Africa Crusade Healing Claims (General Pattern)

Over four decades of mass crusades across Africa, Reinhard Bonnke reported millions of conversions and thousands of healings, but independent medical verification of specific cases has never been published, and skeptical analysis identifies a pattern of unsubstantiated claims.

Saint Rita of Cascia — Six Centuries of Wax-Repaired Preservation

Rita of Cascia, patron of impossible causes, died in 1457; her body has been on display for nearly 600 years, with documented medical examinations in 1743 and 1892 noting repairs to the face using wax and string — indicating partial deterioration.