Faith Healing

A new ProPublica investigation found at least 15 babies and children died from conditions doctors say could have been successfully treated.

A sheriff’s deputy opens the door of an Idaho farmhouse where a newborn baby has just died. It’s almost 10 p.m., but the house is filled with adults and children seated anywhere they can find a spot: in reclining chairs, on the wood-stove hearth, on a chest of drawers. Some of the women hold babies in their laps.

Idaho Matters talks to a few panel members currently discussing the issue of faith healing and why it should not be exempt from Idaho law.

Currently in Idaho, faith healing is legally exempt from medical neglect laws. The Campaign to Protect Idaho Kids has been working on a project to change…

'No Greater Law' investigates the practices of the Followers of Christ, a religious sect that believes prayer, not medicine, can heal the ill and injured.…

Idaho’s controversial laws shielding those who practice faith healing from criminal charges could soon get another challenge.State Rep. John Gannon, a…

Faith healing remains one of the most contentious issues in the state of Idaho. Monday at the Statehouse, a panel of senators narrowly approved a bill…

Two bills related to faith healing were introduced at the Statehouse Wednesday. The Chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee, Jeff Siddoway, said…

A legislative panel will not submit a recommendation to the Idaho Legislature on whether or not the state's law allowing families to cite religious…

Idaho parents are shielded from prosecution if they refuse modern medical care for their children because they believe in faith healing. The laws allowing…