{"id":215417,"date":"2025-12-01T21:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-boy-left-with-ostomy-bag-after-church-healing\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:43:48","slug":"namibia-boy-left-with-ostomy-bag-after-church-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-boy-left-with-ostomy-bag-after-church-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Boy Left With Ostomy Bag After Church &#8216;Healing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The 12-year-old victim of a &#8216;healing&#8217; concoction is recovering at home after undergoing emergency surgery at Rundu Intermediate Hospital, where he was fitted with an ostomy bag.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">This comes after a self-proclaimed prophet at Leviticus Voice of Prophet Church allegedly administered a mixture of vinegar, salt and the root of an unidentified tree to the boy on 18 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The &#8216;prophet&#8217;, who is now facing a case of attempted murder and contravention of the Health Professions Act, however, denies&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512010727.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12-year-old victim of a &#8216;healing&#8217; concoction is recovering at home after undergoing emergency surgery at Rundu Intermediate Hospital, where he was fitted with an ostomy bag. This comes after a self-proclaimed prophet at Leviticus Voice of Prophet Church allegedly administered a mixture of vinegar, salt and the root of an unidentified tree to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,11468,7654,6581,24069,7781,4706,724,257,53002,254],"class_list":["post-215417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bag","tag-boy","tag-church","tag-healing","tag-left","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ostomy","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}