The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a useful backgrounder on the role of faith groups in the increasingly bitter U.S. healthcare debate. The report focuses on the two large faith-based coalitions that have emerged on opposite sides of the political struggle to overhaul America’s system of healthcare, which is President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
Some religious traditions and rituals emphasize eating and drinking from communal dishes –and vessels. Flu transmission may be possible in these circumstances. If flu is circulating widely in your community, faith and community leaders may consider adjusting such practices in order to reduce the spread of flu.
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It is often said that cleanliness is next to godliness. At St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in downtown Scranton, it is next to the rear pew, just steps inside the door.
Different faith communities are thinking ahead about the upcoming flu season, particularly about how to handle the H1N1 virus amid all the tactile rituals that are associated with a worshiping community.
Calling access to healthcare a moral and spiritual imperative, Los Angeles faith leaders held a religious service and launched a phone bank Friday to urge congressional leaders to include illegal immigrants in any healthcare reform plan.
Two weeks ago, you were waltzing around feeling young and attractive, and now you are the object of Get Well cards and recipient of bouquets of carnations. Rich or poor, young or old, we all face the injustice of life — it ends too soon…
“Tonight was about the moral “we.” President Obama delivered a hope-filled speech that called us to stop being part of a camp–and instead see our “camp” as the wider American family. Those of us who are rich, who are poor, who are in-between, those who are ill, who are healthy, who one day may be infirm. We are in this together.”
While relocating to a new hospital for better odds and or signing up for multiple transplant centers isn’t breaking UNOS policies, ethicists and patients have previously criticized the practice as unfair.