Tory MP candidate 'claims she healed deaf man through prayer '
'I don't know if he was more surprised than me,' says Kristy Adams
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Your support makes all the difference.A Conservative party candidate has reportedly claimed she healed a deaf man with her bare hands by channelling the power of prayer.
Kristy Adams, who is standing to be MP for Hove and Portslade, said she healed the man by placing her hands over his ears and saying: “Be healed in Jesus' name.”
When she removed her hands from his ears, he could miraculously hear without hearing aids, the former councillor reportedly told the King’s Arms Church in Bedford in 2010.
"His eyes lit up, which is unusual when you offer to pray for someone for healing,” she was heard saying in a recording obtained by The Mirror.
"He took his hearing aids out and I just put my hands on his ears and said 'be healed in Jesus' name'. He took my hands off and he could actually hear.
"I don't know if he was more surprised than me!"
The former Bedford Borough Councillor had been representing the church at a wellness event in 2009, where she was running a “healing centre”, when the supposed episode occurred.
Ms Adams told The Mirror: “Like millions of Christians in the UK, I believe in praying to help people.
"Millions of Christians around the world pray for people's health - that's a good thing isn't it?
"It's about tolerance and we are a city of tremendous tolerance."
Ms Adams will be challenging incumbent Labour MP Peter Kyle to the Hove and Portslade seat who won two years ago with a majority of 1,236.
She has been contacted for comment.
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