Faith

Attending church is good for your health. Now what?
- Faith, Religion News Service
- July 9, 2017
While researchers work to tease out the mediating factors in religious services that may hold the secret ingredient to health, there’s little question that religious groups have a lot going for them. More questions need to be asked to understand the whole picture.
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Spiritual therapy eyed as possible treatment for PTSD
- Associated Press, Faith
- February 5, 2017
Dr. Nagy Youssef, a doctor treating PTSD says, “somebody goes to combat, seeing friends being killed and killing others. Spirituality can be affected. It might go against their moral beliefs. That’s hard to reconcile when they come back.”
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Like St. John Bosco before him, Francis calls the young to lead a ‘revolution of tenderness’
- Church in the US, Commentary, Faith
- January 28, 2017
Like St. John Bosco more than a century ago, Pope Francis has relied on a resounding “yes” to the possibility of change, repeatedly calling on youth and young adults to lead a “revolution of tenderness” in our world today. He has summoned them to work against “the globalization of indifference,” and to look for ways to be a brother and sister to one another and to those around them.
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God doesn’t need empty lip service in prayer
- Church in the US, Faith
- January 21, 2017
As we look at the international scene and all its complexities — world hunger, wars, displaced peoples, nuclear arms — and as Americans enter a new presidential administration, we can avoid shallow prayers and pray to God with sincere hearts asking that justice and peace be given to all people.
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In his own words: President Obama on faith
- Faith, Religion News Service
- January 12, 2017
Adelle Banks has gathered snippets from various speeches President Obama has given during the course of his two terms in office discussing his personal faith and what it means to him.
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Diocese opens sainthood cause for Ohio woman known for healing gifts
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Faith
- December 31, 2016
Among those who claimed miraculous healing from Rhoda Wise was Mother Angelica, founder of the Eternal Word Television Network, who said she was cured of a painful stomach ailment after praying with Wise, who led her in a novena to St. Therese of Lisieux.
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