From a report on Sky News in Britain...

"Naked men, women and children, some of them in chains to prevent them escaping, cower in front of the men in charge in a dimly-lit room in the church of St Mary on Mount Entoto [above Addis Adaba]...[an orthodox church] 10,000 feet above sea level, where the air is thin....These people fear death, but they believe that coming here will prolong their lives. It is more likely to have the opposite effect...The church itself is more than 100 years old, a simple building painted in bright colours. It sits above a mountain stream, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church believes the stream is holy water with the power to cure HIV/Aids. Every day, thousands of people with the virus come here to be 'baptized', though the act is performed without ceremony and in a way which seems brutal to outsiders. Plastic [tubs] are filled with water from a pool, and passed along a human chain to priests dressed like deep sea fishermen. The bright yellow waterproofs protect them from the drenching they administer to their congregation. They hurl the water over the mass of people kneeling in front of them who shriek and scream, either through devotion or the simple shock of the cold water hitting their naked flesh...Some cried out for the demons to leave their body, while priests hit them with wooden crosses. Many of them clutched their babies while the water was is shaken from the plastic containers."

The article goes on to say that most of these people have been encouraged by some leaders to forgo their medical treatments as an act of faith in the healing powers of the water. "We don't allow patients to take medications if they come here to receive the holy water," said head priest Father Geberemedhen. National leaders in the church deny that people get that advice, despite videotape of Father Geberemedhen contradicting them.

This is abuse...in fact, it may rise to the level of religious murder. Miracles happen, but to encourage people to stop taking antiretroviral medications in anticipation of a miracle is insane.

And, at least to my way of looking at it, it's unChristian.