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...explaining step-by-step what happens when Muslims come to pray, Cagrici continued his respectful lesson to the professor Pontiff on what he sees as the true, moderate nature of Islam. The two later gathered in a "moment of serenity," that may be as close to a genuine joint prayer as the traditionalist Pope has ever done with a non-Christian. The two leaders closed the visit by exchanging art works of doves, the symbol for peace in both faiths. Clearly moved, the Pope said he "will never forget" the visit. Hopefully, millions of others - Muslims and Christians alike - will...
...this point, we will break for lunch. We usually recommend the best bacon cheeseburger in the square, the “Alan Dershowitz” at Bartley’s. Before breaking bread, we make sure to lead the group in a good ol’-fashioned Harvard prayer, so we face the B-school and genuflect five times to the gods of mammon and usury...
...school; in the 1970s, when the De La Salle Brothers were in charge, it resembled a Rugby League academy with prison-like discipline. Before classes on a recent morning, every seat is taken in Holy Spirit's chapel; there isn't a boy present. Senior students have organized a prayer service for Remembrance Day, marking the 1918 armistice. Many of the girls here have a Lebanese background. The prayers are mostly about hope and peace, asking the Lord to guide world leaders, to protect from harm Australian soldiers and Iraqis and, at home, to help people treat each other with...
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...attemptto nail downthe question of whether prayer really can heal, six hospitals had strangers say prayers for 1,800 coronary-bypass patients and then studied the postoperative complications. Patients who were told they might or might not be prayed for had roughly the same complication rate, whatever their prayer status turned out to be. But those who were told for certain that they were in someone's prayers actually did worse. The doctors' tentative explanation: people who knew they were being prayed for might have thought they were sicker than they realized, which could have made their outcomes...