{"id":5667,"date":"2023-09-11T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2023-09-11T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:30:22","slug":"spiritual-healing-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/09\/11\/spiritual-healing-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Spiritual Healing&#8217; Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was first broadcast over a month ago, but I have only caught up with it on its broadcast repeat.  It&#8217;s a must-see programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-65264921\">Hanan Razek, BBC News, Investigating the &#8216;spiritual healers&#8217; sexually abusing women, 8 Aug 2023<\/a>. &#8220;Testimonies gathered by the BBC from 85 women, over a period of more than a year, named 65 so-called healers in Morocco and Sudan &#8211; two countries where such practices are particularly popular &#8211; with accusations ranging from harassment to rape.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Sex for healing - Eye Investigations - BBC Africa\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOtKHOFsTYs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was first broadcast over a month ago, but I have only caught up with it on its broadcast repeat. It&#8217;s a must-see programme. Hanan Razek, BBC News, Investigating the &#8216;spiritual healers&#8217; sexually abusing women, 8 Aug 2023. &#8220;Testimonies gathered by the BBC from 85 women, over a period of more than a year, named&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,121,16,400,363,159,468],"tags":[637,124,638,102,639,54,406],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-gender","category-health","category-journalism","category-morocco","category-quran","category-sudan-internet","tag-healing","tag-gender","tag-health","tag-journalism","tag-medical","tag-religious-authority","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}