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coming up÷ lucky severson n aw3 severely disabled anglican priest helping wounded veterans and other sufferers everywhere. >> took a special type of company that's willing to create z5#ical device that is affordable. and buddhists promoting world peace with floating lanterns in new york city's
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major funding for "religionq and ethics newsweekly" is çóçó provided by the lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private ñr family foundation dedicated to its founders' interest in religion-"community developmentá and education. additional funding also a provided by mutual of america,
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some g -tam1ñ including the u.s conference of catholici] bishop pledged to welcome thesári9qm andw3jf called on lawmakers to immigration reform. president obamajf urged congres& to provide nearly $4 billion to contain the influx. the white house has said that most of the migrant children will not be allowed to stay in the country.c inçóçó other news, thet( prt called for restraint on both sides of the escalating violence betweenxd israelisqçó and palestinians. israe> carriedlp out military operationsc in gaza as hamas launched rockets deep into iáj
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francis begged them for forgiveness and said there was no place in church ministry for those who committ( abuse. advocates for sex abuse victims said the meeting waslp a first step but urged concretelp measus to discipline bishops who covered up sex abuse.cxdr here in the u.s. an article in the online magazine the intercept says that the fbi and nsa spied on the e-mail communications of five prominent american muslims, including the head of the council on americ3n islamic relations orym c.a.r.ei muslim t(groups, includingym t muslim publicñi affairs council expressed outrage and called on president obama for an explanati explanation. the article says it's unclear why theñiçó muslims were monito. about 50 conservative
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episcopalçó churches in south carolina are fighting in court with the nationalfá episcopal carolina are fighting in court with the nationalfá episcopal church over church prope÷4 valued at nearlyc c$500 million. the churches broke off from the national church in 2012 over doctrinal issues including the ordert( nation of gays. now they're fighting to keep the land and buildings theyr before, some of which date back to before the revolutionary war. we have amy powerful lucky severson storylpñiw3ñiq today a anglican priest z travels the world helping veterans and other victims of ok6húlence. michael lapsley says he's welcomed by these sufferers because he himself suffers constantly from the effects ofxa package bomb he opened years ago when he was fighting apartheid in south africa.qi] >> it is notr
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>> the greatest passport i have personally to workko across th 4wq' people seeñ$ññr me, they k have suffered loss, and even though their loss mayr different, they're stillçó ableo identify, so ironically the hands that i have lost becomes a major asset. >> he grew up inq new zealan%÷l was sent as a young priest inñr the xd1970s to south africa lon before the system that institutionalized racial segregation, apartheid, was abolished. >> apartheidfáxd traumatized me messed me up. i stopped being a human being and became a white man because
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suddenly every single aspect of my life wascw3 decided by the cr of my skin. sa problem. >> the system ofñir carried out inq the namen/ gospel of fáxpichrist, and yet s the verylp opposite of the faiti had learned at my xdmother's kn in childhood, in my ::)  became so public in
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>> it was not a message that thi south africanr abide by. ijf survived anlp assassinationá vkpthe bomb, i had a sense thatd was with me. and, of course, in the ficc, four months after the bombing9ai was as helpless as a newborn baby. i couldád i still have no hands. i still only have one eye. my eardr i'll always need someone to assist me for themy rest of my life. >> he had a choice to make and after he wasmoñbombed, am i goi to go to a kind of bucolic little parish in australia or am i going to jumpr this here and see what i can do, and it takes character to do that. >> mike wold was in the navy
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during the vietnam war. now he travels around the u.s.ñ helping father lapsley set upjfú his healingq memories2óworkshop. heçó says lapsleyçó needs helpi hands. >> it took a big toll. it wasn't justt( the hands and ó eye. it was physically -- he needs txme rest.q >> he usef3 somep, magic ñrcwo. he said, for theko thingslp we 4fs2uju the things that have beenxd done to us, for the thin we'vexd failed to do. and if you want to look at my life, there's my life right there. the things i did, i did terrible things, terrible things were
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done to me, and i failedxdr wholefá lot of stuff thatxd i sd have done. >> phillips says he has been lonely andjffá tormented as lon he can remember. he suffers fromçótpñanxiety, depression, and what he calls re-experiencing flashbacks. he's been treated for ptsd. delighted that people get ptsd. i would worry aboéd the possibility that people could go to war or experiencekofá terri trauma and be unaffected. those are the ones you should worry about. >> bob phillips came to the workshop mostly out of curiosity. it's after andñi before.
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>> my firstlp workshop was one the most powerful and life-changing experiences of my life.r >> margaret fell is an episcopal priest who helps out father i5eátk in the workshops alongt( with sheila,ñig >> my father died first at 58 of a heart ñrattack, and my mother had a very difficulti] time wit it and committed suicide three yearslpçóñi later. it had a devastating effect on the family. >> what has beenlp surprising t some people in our work withfá veterans,z] often the major trauma, not always,t( but oftens not war. it's, in fact, things that happened int( earlyfáçó÷ childh. >> but it was war that ,aaumatized david cabal, the bur(rráh @&h(lc& squad leaderño 1rm
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down a bunker. )3qyrñ he looked back, andt(fá laying fa au terrible car accident back the states, and because of some apparent exposure to mustardçó s in3w iraq, hislpr bones can't heal. bones can't heal. ív- leg. >>lp right. all my joints are dying, so there's nothing we canfá do it save them at this point. >> he hasn't been abler with his wife at night because of his screaming and cussing, trapped in his nightmares. the workshop, he says,xd helps. >> first andxd foremost, it giv me thefá feeling of not being alone. i'm not the only oneçñ3 out theó suffering. it's not just me that i have these problems that i gotxd to deal with t(alone.ñi >> peoplee1 becomecc connectedo thexd commonality of their pain sa transcendent. >>qñr father lapsleye1 complete
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understands because he wasn't holding a rifle and being shot at doesn't mean he wasn't in combat in his own wayf=#ç he was in his own combat, and so that isñr a war that we all understand. >> we told a fewñi stories back and forth, and we knew that you knew kind of thing,ñi and itq doesn't take muchw3 to pass the secret word backt( --ñlthe secr handshake. i don't know the secret handshake but i know when if just gotten one. >>c lapsley con doesn'ts workshops with veterans from wars around the world. places like fri, sri lanka, and iraq and afghanistan. he says there's a lot ofo for healing in thec u.s. >> a few parts of the country
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for "religion and ethics news in scottsdale, arizona.ñir now, fred de sam lazaro on medical caregivers in vietnam keep%t infantsq alive not with sophisticated western technology but with low-tech, locally made devices. thtf workçóñr well in hahn nou many other parts of the
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developing world because they're what's called appropriate technology.t(e1 >> it's not unusual to see two,( three, even four newbornst( crammed into the same crib at this busy hospital in hanoi. they're the luckier ones. for those with lungs infected or notñi fully developed because ty were premature, ther >> translator: before 2000 the mortality rate of the qneonatal intensive care unit was lp15%. last year it was less than 2%.z >> çóanti-biotics have helped a have staff trainingzkñ butt( a reason she says is in recent years they have been able to install reliable, locally madei equipment to help baby's breathe called continuous positive
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airway pressure or c pap. america would cost us a lot of money, $2,500. >> not only did they have to rely on imported equipment, bought or donated, but it also broke down. right outside the neonataljfc hanoi hospital is !o!e sophisticated equipmentjf that lies unused and discarded.y1 it's imported, it's high-tech and sophisticated, but it's completely unsuited for kdti('
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their big break cameclwith a >> what neededñijf to happenñi engineering company that was ÷prr&lingxd to work withçó hosp with doctors andcñr nurses to identify what they needed as l-1:á)q) it's in a ng a solution western country or whether it's in a lab somewhere. i mean, honestly, it tookçó a specialfá type of company that' willing to create a medical device that is affordable and that doesn't require
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consumables. consumables are very expensive. >> the big consumable forñi cpa machine is tubg discarded after each patient in thee1 wes. here tubes are disinfected and d reused fort( as long as añiq yer savings in the thousands of dollars.xd that lower price point has brought the equipment into smaller rural hospitals like this one. thexd doctor says his neonatalç unit can nowxd save babies like thisi] one asçó tiny as ñr1.6 p. what would happen before you had this equipment here? would that baby not have survived? >> translator: we would havec t transfer to at( higher level hospital in 100% of these cases. >> that meant a two-hour road jurn ji to hanoi. it was unaffordablet(=/% for ma families who had to foot the bill and to an already overcrowdedxd hanoi hospital, i they got thereçó at all. >> translator: if the roadr
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bumpy, it canñr cause the baby choke or if the ambulance is stuck in a traffic jam, it can" also lengthenq the transfer tim which can alsoko lead to death. >> here, too, the mortality rate has come down by fáú sincejf ñiq2009. life for doctors and patients is farñiñixdñr better.p,r 10-month-old baugh nomçó is as healthy as h]@xm fidgety. it's hard to imagine he wñi%! less than two pounds atñi birth. >> translator: i was very anxious. >> like anyone else whose baby is not well, we were worried. at one pointlp i thought i was goings to break down. for the first week we couldn't see the baby at all. >> in addition tot( cpap, the joint enterprise also makes inf! photo therapyxdxd device explai 234d training sessions by the?n partnership's medical director dr. uw3tran. >> ld(9m1q=iiñ makei] sure thers
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as much skinrñ÷ exposed as possible. >> about 60% of all babies are born with jaundice, which can lead to severe brainñixd damage. it's now easily treated with ultraviolet light. in the past babiese1 were expos to the sun, something that frequently had its own complicationi]lps like sunburn. zm9a%1q kilos. >> the ve nam made so-calledok t.t$oto therapy indoors but by e mother's bedside. >> it's great if you can keep them with their mother and the mother can breast-feed,w3 the mother can do kangaroo care when the baby is not in the photo therapy machines. so it's designed soñi it's smal. when you have lots of ka lined up >> a third partyxd in the ventì& is the private charity design that matters which also focuses on appropriate +technology. inçó this hanoi lab, engineers
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like matthew areq tweaking the 5k%5áu)u boards of the infantñi warming device. >> we'2 justxd trying to improv the reliability a little bit so we've added some extra circumstance cut tri to make it more well protects, particularly in environments where the electricity supply might not be so reliable or might havei] spis and dips. >> you want it to be able to wi withstand spikes in lek tris snit. >> exactly. >> besk,p[ working to t(improve >> b)j to make this enterprise financially sustainable. the devices are now beingñiçó exported to neighboring countries in asia with plans tov expand top.:mq africafá and th hopecmy europee1 which could significantly boostlp revi which they say will be plowed bacri intoñr expanding into poo countries.t( for "religion and ethics
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the founder of the jewish renew yool movement rabbi schlacter-shalomi died÷%dst week. >> the most important thing was q t was between souls and god. >>r a($e reviving jewish mystical fá traditions, the rabbi tu8 toñi make prayer emotional and relev9n5 appealig to the heart as well as the intellecú >> as long as i can connect people in a loving direction with god, the rest is up to god; >> finally, qf3w buddhist cer promoting world peace with city's central park. our host was reverend cal vifá ñ greensfold. >> it's an international
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buddhist buddhism. the actual meaninge1 of the nam is a place to findt(fáñi awaken almost as you'rexd coming into garden with no borders, boundaries, or fences.q the ceremony thisñi evening reay is something that'st( been adapp and built upon from añi long tradition of lantern floating ceremonies. you need the simple elements !í water, which symbolizesxdym hec compassion,ko and a sort ofñiñ; this is the current head. she'se1 dedicated to making pea throughout the world.çóçó >> i'd like to convey our
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faiths in the world.jfxd i want people to be awakened to their kind, caring potential, and i wantt( themñi to make thet áure in their everyday life.i] >gñ just as peace is not ac on momentpi' time, it's a throughout the day, make theirj own lanternsdó and most importantly they'll write their messages foró[r whether they want to focus itxdn remembering someone who hasxd helped them find peace or they really want to just take a moment to breatheñi and think about what is my response to the world, to everything that's going on.çójft( what is my step forward in beink part of peace. when you write something, it's hujuk individual. it's very personal. but when youçg7ç float it andñr realize that these lanterns are floating, it's not just yours that's out on this big reflecting pool, but it's actually bobbing and ebbing and1 flowing with so many others, we
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peace and our path are always connected with so many others.w3 what makes this sort of contemporary andc innovative ceremony that's unique is that there's a realxdt( focus on the future,c meaning as you float
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