Daughter Of Former Car Thief Performs Miracles, Channels God's Spirit

Alani Santos and her father Pastor Adauto Santos

 San Gonzalos, Brazil - An eight-year-old Brazilian girl says she is channeling God's power by performing miracles and faith healings at her father's church.

Twice a week, Alani Santos, daughter of a former car thief who turned pastor, receives the vulnerable and sick from across Brazil at a Pentecostal church in the San Gonzalos slum just on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

The girl is known as Missionarinha, or "little missionary," among the faithful. Alani has been "healing" since she was six and says she enjoys helping the sick. In the future, she wants to become a doctor.

"To see God working though people and their lives, that is very pleasing. I pray and God performs miracles. My Dad interviews people who say I have cured them," she said in an interview.
"A lot of the time, I just touch people. Sometimes, I pray and worship, and the person is cured."

People believe she can heal anything from inability to walk to HIV and cancer. Twice a week they gather for a chance to be touched by the girl's healing hands.

At the end of the service, the suitors are asked to donate money.

Pastor Adauto Santos says his daughter is an ordinary girl, apart from the "gift". He describes her as an instrument in Jesus' hands. 

More and more Christians are converting to Pentecostalism in Brazil. The Pentecostal church believes in direct contact with God through the holy spirit, which manifests through experiences such as healing, speaking in tongues and prophecy.

Alani touches the man on the arms and chest before laying a hand on his head; he collapses

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