Patients diagnosed with glaucoma need regularly to self-administer eye drops for months or years. Adherents of some of the world’s major religions refuse to use eye drops when fasting is required or expected. Medical researchers have undertaken a study to gain some insight into the extent to which religious scruples may compromise compliance [...]

A female Muslim obstetrician-gynaecologist in Britain says many of her patients bear the marks of domestic violence.   She lays much of the blame on religious misconceptions held by their husbands.
Dr [Fatima] Husain, who works at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals in Berkshire, told the Muslim News that many women ask to be referred to [...]

Are English mayors taking lessons from fastidious Anglican bishops?
Lesley Dedman, mayor of a village in Dorset, England, received a dressing-down (so to speak) from Lt Cdr Ron Daw, mayor of a neighbouring jurisdiction, after she ventured onto his turf wearing her full regalia.
Mr Daw accused Mrs Dedman of a breach of protocol by not informing [...]

The collect for today, the 25th Sunday after Trinity, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy Church and household continually in thy true religion; that they who do lean only upon the hope of thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power; through Jesus [...]