|
|
|
|
Scientific Studies on Simultaneous Intercessory group Prayer We as Christians are aware of the tremendous effects that group prayer can yield. Over the past few years, many skeptic scientific have produced studies that agree with what we already knew. Listed below are some of these studies and their direct links. If uniting in prayer can achieve these results imagine how the world could be healed, when enough people take 20 seconds of their day to unite! |
Remarkable life expetancies of AIDS patients
In July 1995, back when AIDS was still a death sentence, psychiatrist Elisabeth Targ and her co-researchers enrolled 20 patients with advanced AIDS in a randomized, double-blind pilot study at the UC San Francisco Medical Center.
read moreHeart patients Perform 50 to 100% better under group prayer
The first major study that looked at prayer and its healing effects was published in 1988 in the Southern Medical Journal.
read moreDecrease in crime
In 1993 a 48% decrease in crime in D.C. Was attributed to an experiment of 4000 people meditating at the same time. Certainly many of these people were using this time to for prayer, but you can imagine what the results could have been if all 4000 of them had been praying?
read moreMajority of Doctors Say Faith Helps Patients
Los Angeles - A new survey finds that 85 percent of U.S. doctors believe religious faith can help patients have a good outcome.
Researchers polled 1,144 doctors for the study, which was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, The Los Angeles Times reported. Only 1 percent said they believe religious faith and spirituality have a negative effect, while 2 percent said it has no effect and 12 percent said they think the positive and negative effects are balanced.
read more
