Some leaders may fabricate or exaggerate miracle claims to promote their ministries; other believers may enthusiastically and in a well-meaning way circulate stories uncritically to promote their movements. At the same time, my interviews suggest to me that the proportion of those who believe that they have seen miracles in their lives or those of people directly known to them (i.e., not just claims of persons they do not know in public meetings) is fairly high and that many of these cures involve serious health issues (esp. in poorer countries).
