Case file · Apparition / miracle
Babu wa Loliondo's miracle cup
In early 2011 queues miles long formed at Samunge, a remote village near Loliondo, where a retired Lutheran pastor, Ambilikile Mwasapile, gave out a single cup of herbal drink that he said God had revealed could cure AIDS, diabetes and cancer.
2011 CE · -2.20, 35.88 · status: claim
The account
Ministers, officials and people from across East Africa made the journey; reports spoke of many deaths among the sick on the road and in the queues, and the district stopped new arrivals for a while. Mwasapile said the cure worked only if patients believed; he died in 2021. The point is approximate.
The sceptical view
No cure was shown, and doctors warned that some patients abandoned antiretroviral drugs.