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with contributions from Eric Tiansay, David Steindl-Rast, Matthew B. Horne, Isabel Allende, Mark Matousek, Jeanie Davis, Thomas E. Phillips

"Church Leaders, city officials and lay ministers are utilizing an unconventional weapon to reduce crime and drug activity in Baltimore: prayer gatherings.
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with contributions from Berta Delgado, Tanis Helliwell, Michael Lerner, Mikal Gilmore, Muzaffer Iqbal

"Once a month Cindy Lewis makes the 180-mile trek from Georgetown to North Dallas for a meetings she believes is invaluable.
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with contributions from George W. Bush, Tom Heinen, Polly LaBarre

"I'M Encouraging Schoolchildren to write letters of friendship to Muslim children in different countries.
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with contributions from Sara Solovitch, Larry Witham, Daniel Schorr, George Soros, Brett Hoffman

Cardiac Patients Who Received intercessory prayer in addition to coronary stenting appeared to have better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard stenting therapy alone, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
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with contributions from Stephen Scott, Elizabeth Lesser, Daniel Rechtschaffen, Marc Gunther, Colleen Long

How Might The US lose the war in Afghanistan?
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with contributions from Lan N. Nguyen, W. Terry Whalin, Thomas D. Sullivan

Burns Strider, staffer for Representative Ronnie Shows of Mississippi's Fourth District, discusses his thoughts on the closure of Congressional offices due to the anthrax scare.
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"We Close With A Reminder that anthrax is not the biggest threat to America now; panic is.
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with contributions from Cornelia Schacht, Steve Ahlf, Stephen G. Post

FIRST LADY of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Sara Alpysovna Nazarbaeva, is president of Bobek International Children's Charity Fund, and author of a "self-knowledge" program introduced in schools in Astana, the capital city.
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IN AN ARTICLE on how schools in Hernando County, Florida, were helping students cope with the terrorist attacks on the United States, prayer was definitely part of the mix.
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Despite travel difficulties and the demands of news coverage, 130 reporters and writers attended the 52nd Annual Conference of the Religion Newswriters Association, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last month.
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"The Terrorists Have Offered Us a stark view of the world they would create, where the remedy to every human grievance and injustice is a resort to the random and cowardly violence of revenge—even against the most innocent.
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with contributions from George W. Bush, Senator Don Nickles

"TONIGHT I ASK for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened.