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...Robert Baron listens intently as a 33-year-old man's medical symptoms are described. The man, who had briefly passed out, is in severe pain from his kidney area and is getting oxygen. The doctor sits across the hall from the emergency room at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., but his patient is a little farther away: on an airplane 30,000 ft. over the Middle East. Yet within minutes, Baron has diagnosed a kidney stone, suggested preliminary treatment and arranged for medical personnel to meet the plane on arrival...
...Kennedy School of Government, named after the ‘Good Samaritan.’ There is a heavy weight on my shoulders to continue my activism,” Barend says...
Intra-Christian recrimination also arose around the shocking death last November of Bonnie Witherall, 31, a nurse's assistant at the Christian and Missionary Alliance pre-natal clinic in Sidon, Lebanon, a facility funded partly by Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse organization. One morning as she arrived to open the clinic, an unknown assailant shot her three times in the head. Her murder may have been simple anti-Americanism, since it followed one of Osama bin Laden's bellicose edicts. But the New York Times reported that members of the Alliance--which flew a banner emblazoned with the Arabic...
Your article "A Faith-Based Initiative" noted that some Christian evangelical organizations are ready to go into Iraq to distribute aid along with a Christian message [COVER STORY, April 21]. Shame on Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse and the Southern Baptist Convention for supporting the troops in Iraq and then using their organizations' aid as a tool to convert Muslims. The Mennonite Central Committee, Church World Service and Catholic Relief Services have it right: Simply show compassion for all God's people by meeting their needs. Leave the rest to God, by whatever name. RICHARD H. ADAMS Hector...
...responds to them all, selecting a question each week to feature in his column. "It's nice to be able to let people know that I'm hearing what they're saying," says Miller. "I'm just a regular guy," he hastens to add. "I'm not a Samaritan." But there's no question that this accidental expert is doing good. Not only does his column give seniors help when they need it most, but it has also given Miller an entree into a world he lost when his parents passed away...