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Archive for November 9th, 2008

Religious beliefs can interfere with eye treatment

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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 among glaucoma [...]

Some Muslim men assume “God-given right to beat wives”

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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 [...]

Mayor reprimanded for “cross border raid”

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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 [...]

The Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Trinity

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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 [...]