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How religious literacy can save lives | Religion News Service

June 21, 2017
(RNS) While on clinical rotations, I helped treat a patient who seemed to be fainting every other day from hypoglycemia. Ms. K. had been diagnosed with diabetes over a year ago but had only started to have this problem recently. After learning more about her social history and background, I discovered that she was a practicing Muslim and was fasting because of the holy month of Ramadan. Source: How religious literacy can save lives | Religion News Service

Diane Rehm on Assisted Suicide | April 22, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

April 26, 2016
“People need to talk about this issue,” says Diane Rehm, author of On My Own. “Doctors need to be taught about this issue. The whole idea of doctors being taught about helping to keep people alive but not being taught how to listen to those who are ready to die—that seems to me sad and misguided.” More →

Source: Diane Rehm on Assisted Suicide | April 22, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

Supreme Court Contraception Mandate | March 25, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

April 7, 2016
“We Little Sisters of the Poor are a group of women who made religious vows to God. Now we find ourselves in a situation where the government is requiring us to make changes in our religious health care plan to include services that really violate our deepest held religious beliefs as Little Sisters,” says Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, Mother Provincial of the Little Sisters of the Poor. But Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center, says, “Women deserve insurance coverage for birth control  no matter  where they work...
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