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In 2010, the Church's Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers said that the Church manages 26% of the world's health care facilities. [3] The Church's involvement in health care has ancient origins. Jesus Christ, whom the Church holds as its founder, instructed his followers to heal the sick. [4]
Negative religious coping (or spiritual struggles) expresses conflict, question, and doubt regarding issues of God and faith. [57] The effects of religious coping are measured in many different circumstances, each with different outcomes.
Reviews and discussions have appeared in The New Yorker, [1] Freethought Today, [2] First Things, [3] Journal of the American Medical Association, [4] The Gerontologist, [5] the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, [6] Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, [7] The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, [8] Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, [9] Journal of ...
Death, disability, and other unwanted outcomes have occurred when faith healing was elected instead of medical care for serious injuries or illnesses." [8] When parents have practiced faith healing but not medical care, many children have died that otherwise would have been expected to live. [13] Similar results are found in adults. [14]
Science and Health encapsulates the teachings of Christian Science and adherents often call it their "textbook." At Sunday services, the sermon consists of passages from the Bible with "correlative passages" [9] from Science and Health. Eddy called the two books Christian Science's "dual and impersonal pastor". [10] [non-primary source needed]
Certain Christian rules of purity have implications for bodily hygiene and observing cleanliness, [4] including sexual hygiene, [5] menstruation and toilet etiquette. [6] In the Coptic Orthodox Church , the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church male circumcision is an established practice. [ 7 ]
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The Church has translated Grace, Care and Justice, a handbook published by the Lutheran World Federation, into Hindi, the official language of India, as well as the regional languages Tamil and Telugu, to disseminate information regarding the "prevention, transmission and care provision" of HIV/AIDS. [2]