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Astăzi, 20 iulie, creştinii ortodocşi prăznuiesc marea sărbătoare a Sfântului Prooroc Ilie cunoscut ca ocrotitor al recoltelor şi aducător de ploi, de grindină, fulgere şi tunete. Tot el alungă canicula şi seceta de pe ogoare şi răcoreşte pământul. Se spune că Sfântul Ilie a fost ispitit de diavol pentru a-şi ucide părinţii. Căindu-se pentru fapta sa, i-a cerut bunului Dumnezeu puterea de a lupta împotriva spiritelor rele. Dumnezeu i-a ascultat rugăciunile şi i-a dăruit un car tras de cai albi şi l-a făcut puternic şi biruitor în faţa spiritelor rele. Când tună şi fulgeră se ştie, Sfântul Ilie pleacă la vânătoare de demoni, trăsnind în toate locurile unde diavolii s-ar putea ascunde. Pentru a se asigura că Ilie nu distruge lumea, Dumnezeu l-a lăsat ciung de mâna dreaptă, l-a asurzit sau i-a scos un ochi - nu se ştie prea bine ce anume i
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Mohammad Elshinawy, religious director of the Islamic Education Center of Pennsylvania, and an imam at the Jesus Son of Mary Mosque in Upper Macungie in Lehigh County, speaks during a joint press conference with the Pennsylvania Department of Health April 7 at St. Luke s Hospital s Allentown campus.Â
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Government, religious and medical leaders came together to discuss vaccine hesitancy among Muslims and other minority groups across the commonwealth in Allentown on Wednesday.
Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam joined leaders from St. Luke’s University Health Network, Rabiul Chowdhury of the Muslim Aid Initiative and Imam Mohammad Elshinawy of the Islamic Education Center of Pennsylvania to tackle the topic, which has been a focus of the department over the course of the past few months, at the Sacred Heart campus.
As of Thursday, 3,779,961 partial vaccinations and 2,125,826 full vaccinations have been administered in Pennsylvania.
With 442,310 first doses of the vaccine set to be sent to Pennsylvania from the federal government this week, Beam noted that questions will become more frequent, and that education is imperative to help in the goal to eliminate the pandemic.