By Dan Wooding
Dr. Fidel Fernandez, a 60-year-old pathologist originally from the city of Zamboanga, Philippines, and now living in Penang, Malaysia, spends his days studying diseases under the microscope, but he also is a believer in divine healing, which he believes should be put also under the microscope.
He was one of 240 doctors and medical professionals from 38 different countries who came to the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia, for the 11th Annual International World Christian Doctors Network Christian Medical Conference held May 9-10, 2014, to explore whether miracles still happen today and, if they do, to provide medical data to prove them.
So I asked this charming doctor, who is now Deputy Dean of a medical degree program and Associate Professor of Pathology at Alliance University College of Medical Science in Penang, if he had ever experienced a personal miracle in his life.
“Well,” he said, “the best example would be my son who was born with a congenital disease. Before he was born, the doctors told me that he could only live possibly one year. We were pushed against the wall and my wife Leticia, who is a nurse, and myself, just relied on prayer and he’s now 27 years old so that’s a great miracle for me.”
He added, “So, you can see why I am great believer in God being the great miracle workers and my studies have proved many of them to be absolutely true.”
I then asked Leticia why she had come to the “Spirituality and Medicine” gathering in Sofia, and she replied, “I have worked with the World Christian Doctors Network (WCDN) since 2005 and I’ve become active in the organization. I am finding that there are a lot of doctors who believe in miracles, but some others are still skeptics.”
That is why this WCDN conference is taking place — to “Glorify the Great Physician” and to attend a unique “Medicine, Science and Spirituality” conference. These various medical doctors from around the world believe that miracles should be provable and so several of them brought their medical data which was printed out in a book and also shown on a screen and then took questions from their peers.
For more information on the Bulgaria conference, please go to wcdnbulgaria.org/en, where you can also contact the organizers.
Dan Wooding is the founder of ASSIST News.
Originally published on the ASSIST News website, www.assistnews.net, May 9, 2014. Posted with permission.