Can this eight-year-old really perform miracles? The Brazilian girl who claims she can channel God to cure arthritis, cancer and HIV just by touching people
- Alani Santos, 8, performs healing ceremonies at her father's church
- Her father claims she can heal cancer, arthritis and event HIV
- Pastor Adauto Santos preaches alongside his daughter in Rio de Janeiro
- He also runs a website that sells posters and DVDs of his daughter at work
By Chris Pleasance
Published: 20:35 GMT, 2 April 2014 | Updated: 21:46 GMT, 2 April 2014
Deep in the crime-ridden slums of Brazil is perhaps not the place you would expect to find God.
But one eight-year-old girl claims to be channeling His power in order to perform faith healings, curing everything from cancer to HIV.
Alani Santos claims to perform miracles at her father's church in the favela of San Gonzalos, just outside Rio de Janeiro.
Alani Santos claims to perform faith healing at her father's church in the slums otuside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Videos posted online claim to show the eight-year-old laying her hands on an HIV sufferer and 'curing' him
In the clip Alani touches the man on the arms and chest before laying a hand on his head, when he collapses
In her YouTube videos, Alani can be seen helping an elderly woman to walk without using a stick, and 'healing' a man who has been suffering from HIV for seven years.
Encouraged by her father, Pastor Adauto Santos, a former car thief, she lays her hands on the man who then collapses on the floor in shock.
Twice a week the vulnerable and sick from across Brazil file into the building for a chance to be touched by the girl's healing hands. At the end of the service, people are asked to fill collection bowls.
Speaking to Vocative, she said: 'To see God working though people and their lives, that is very pleasing.
Alani preaches at the church where her father, Aduato (left), a former car thief, is the pastor
Alani has been healing people since she was just six and says she enjoys doing it because it helps people
Every week hundred of sick and vulnerable people from across Brazil come to the church to be healed
'I pray and God performs miracles. My Dad interviews people who say I have cured them.'
Alani's father also runs a website where people can send prayers to the girl known as Missionarinha, or 'little missionary'.
The site also sells DVDs and posters, advertises tour dates, and allows people to contact Alani on Skype.
Speaking to the Guardian, Mr Santos said: 'She's a normal kid – apart from this gift. It is Jesus who cures. She is an instrument.'
Alani, who says she wants to be a doctor when she grows up, performs the ceremonies twice a week
Alai's father also runs a website where people can buy DVDs and posters of Alani, as well as sending her prayer and talking with her on Skype
Rio de Janeiro is rated 'critical' by the US Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and is awash with violent gangs
Alani is just one example of a spiritual healer in a country where more and more Christians are converting to Pentecostalism.
The Pentecostal church believes in direct contact with God through the holy spirit, revealed to the believer through experiences such as healing, speaking in tongues and prophecy.
Describing her 'powers', Alani says: 'A lot of the time I just touch people, sometimes I pray and worship and the person is cured.'
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