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WHYY Religion Ethics Newsweekly July 13, 2014

Major funding for religionq and ethics newsweekly is coco provided by the lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private nr Family Foundation dedicated to its founders interest in religioncommunity developmenta and education. Additional funding also a provided by mutual of america, some g tam1n including the u. S conference of catholici] bishop pledged to welcome thesari9qm 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 incoco other news, thet prt called for restraint on both sides of the escalating violence betweenxd israelisqco and palestinians. Israe carriedlp out military operationsc in gaza as hamas launched rockets deep into iaj 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 email 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 publicni Affairs Council expressed outrage and called on president obama for an explanati explanation. The article says its unclear why thenico muslims were monito. About 50 conservative episcopalco churches in South Carolina are fighting in court with the nationalfa episcopal carolina are fighting in court with the nationalfa 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 theyre 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 storylpniw3niq today a anglican priest z travels the world helping veterans and other victims of ok6hulence. Michael lapsley says hes 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 the greatest passport i have personally to workko across th 4wq people seen nnr me, they k have suffered loss, and even though their loss mayr different, theyre stillco 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 innr the xd1970s to south africa lon before the system that institutionalized racial segregation, apartheid, was abolished. Apartheidfaxd traumatized me messed me up. I stopped being a human being and became a white man because suddenly every single aspect of my life wascw3 decided by the cr of my skin. Sa problem. The system ofnir carried out inq the namen gospel of faxpichrist, and yet s the verylp opposite of the faiti had learned at my xdmothers kn in childhood, in my  became so public in it was not a message that thi south africanr abide by. Ijf survived anlp assassinationa 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 couldad i still have no hands. I still only have one eye. My eardr ill always need someone to assist me for themy rest of my life. He had a choice to make and after he wasmonbombed, 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 during the vietnam war. Now he travels around the u. S. n helping father lapsley set upjfu his healingq memories2oworkshop. Heco says lapsleyco needs helpi hands. It took a big toll. It wasnt justt the hands and o eye. It was physically he needs txme rest. Q he usef3 somep, magic nrcwo. He said, for theko thingslp we 4fs2uju the things that have beenxd done to us, for the thin wevexd failed to do. And if you want to look at my life, theres my life right there. The things i did, i did terrible things, terrible things were done to me, and i failedxdr wholefa lot of stuff thatxd i sd have done. Phillips says he has been lonely andjffa tormented as lon he can remember. He suffers fromcotpnanxiety, depression, and what he calls reexperiencing flashbacks. Hes been treated for ptsd. Delighted that people get ptsd. I would worry aboed the possibility that people could go to war or experiencekofa terri trauma and be unaffected. Those are the ones you should worry about. Bob phillips came to the workshop mostly out of curiosity. Its after andni before. My firstlp workshop was one the most powerful and lifechanging experiences of my life. R Margaret Fell is an episcopal priest who helps out father i5eatk in the workshops alongt with sheila,nig my father died first at 58 of a heart nrattack, and my mother had a very difficulti] time wit it and committed suicide three yearslpconi later. It had a devastating effect on the family. What has beenlp surprising t some people in our work withfa veterans,z] often the major trauma, not always,t but oftens not war. Its, in fact, things that happened int earlyfaco÷ childh. But it was war that ,aaumatized david cabal, the bur rrah h lc squad leaderno 1rm down a bunker. 3qyrn he looked back, andt fa laying fa au terrible car accident back the states, and because of some apparent exposure to mustardco s in3w iraq, hislpr bones cant heal. Bones cant heal. iv leg. Lp right. All my joints are dying, so theres nothing we canfa do it save them at this point. He hasnt 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 thefa feeling of not being alone. Im not the only onecn3 out theo suffering. Its not just me that i have these problems that i gotxd to deal with t alone. ni peoplee1 becomecc connectedo thexd commonality of their pain sa transcendent. Qnr father lapsleye1 complete understands because he wasnt holding a rifle and being shot at doesnt mean he wasnt in combat in his own wayf c he was in his own combat, and so that isnr a war that we all understand. We told a fewni stories back and forth, and we knew that you knew kind of thing,ni and itq doesnt take muchw3 to pass the secret word backt nlthe secr handshake. I dont know the secret handshake but i know when if just gotten one. C lapsley con doesnts workshops with veterans from wars around the world. Places like fri, sri lanka, and iraq and afghanistan. He says theres a lot ofo for healing in thec u. S. A few parts of the country for religion and ethics news in scottsdale, arizona. nir now, fred de sam lazaro on medical caregivers in vietnam keep t infantsq alive not with sophisticated western technology but with lowtech, locally made devices. Thtf workconr well in hahn nou many other parts of the developing world because theyre whats called appropriate technology. T e1 its not unusual to see two, three, even four newbornst crammed into the same crib at this busy hospital in hanoi. Theyre the luckier ones. For those with lungs infected or notni 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 coantibiotics have helped a have staff trainingzkn butt a reason she says is in recent years they have been able to install reliable, locally madei equipment to help babys breathe called Continuous Positive 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 its imported, its hightech and sophisticated, but its completely unsuited for kdti their big break cameclwith a what needednijf to happenni Engineering Company that was ÷prr lingxd to work withco hosp with doctors andcnr nurses to identify what they needed as l1 a q its in a ng a solution western country or whether its in a lab somewhere. I mean, honestly, it tookco a specialfa type of company that willing to create a medical device that is affordable and that doesnt require consumables. Consumables are very expensive. The big consumable forni cpa machine is tubg discarded after each patient in thee1 wes. Here tubes are disinfected and d reused fort as long as aniq 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 neonatalc unit can nowxd save babies like thisi] one asco tiny as nr1. 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 twohour 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 thereco at all. Translator if the roadr bumpy, it cannr 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 fau sincejf niq2009. Life for doctors and patients is farninixdnr better. P,r 10monthold baugh nomco is as healthy as h] xm fidgety. Its hard to imagine he wni  less than two pounds atni 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 couldnt 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 partnerships medical director dr. Uw3tran. Ld 9m1q iin makei] sure thers as much skinrn÷ exposed as possible. About 60 of all babies are born with jaundice, which can lead to severe brainnixd damage. Its 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 socalledok t. T oto therapy indoors but by e mothers bedside. Its great if you can keep them with their mother and the mother can breastfeed,w3 the mother can do kangaroo care when the baby is not in the photo therapy machines. So its designed soni its smal. When you have lots of ka lined up a third partyxd in the venti is the private charity design that matters which also focuses on appropriate technology. Inco this hanoi lab, engineers like matthew areq tweaking the 5k 5au u boards of the infantni warming device. We2 justxd trying to improv the reliability a little bit so weve 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 beingnico exported to neighboring countries in asia with plans tov expand top. mq africafa and th hopecmy europee1 which could significantly boostlp revi which they say will be plowed bacri intonr expanding into poo countries. T for religion and ethics the founder of the jewish renew yool movement rabbi schlactershalomi died÷ dst week. The most important thing was q t was between souls and god. R a e reviving jewish mystical fa traditions, the rabbi tu8 toni make prayer emotional and relev9n5 appealig to the heart as well as the intellecu 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 citys central park. Our host was reverend cal vifa n greensfold. Its an International Buddhist buddhism. The actual meaninge1 of the nam is a place to findt fani awaken almost as yourexd coming into garden with no borders, boundaries, or fences. Q the ceremony thisni evening reay is something thatst been adapp and built upon from ani long tradition of lantern floating ceremonies. You need the simple elements i water, which symbolizesxdym hec compassion,ko and a sort ofnin; this is the current head. Shese1 dedicated to making pea throughout the world. coco id like to convey our faiths in the world. Jfxd i want people to be awakened to their kind, caring potential, and i wantt themni to make thet aure in their everyday life. I] gn just as peace is not ac on momentpi time, its a throughout the day, make theirj own lanternsdo and most importantly theyll write their messages foro[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 breatheni and think about what is my response to the world, to everything thats going on. cojft what is my step forward in beink part of peace. When you write something, its hujuk individual. Its very personal. But when youcg7c float it andnr realize that these lanterns are floating, its not just yours thats out on this big reflecting pool, but its actually bobbing and ebbing and1 flowing with so many others, we peace and our path are always connected with so many others. W3 what makes this sort of contemporary andc innovative ceremony thats unique is that theres a realxdt focus on the future,c meaning as you float cou nixde1t oklpt t ninr xdt xde1fae1i]r lpe1u major funding for religion and a ics newokly is major funding for religion and ethics newsweekly is provided by the baeaetjuayfa an indianapolis based private Family Foundation dedicated to d its founders interest in hevelopment,xd thats why were your retirement company. And the corporation for public broadcasting. Rose welcome to the program. Im charlie rose. The program is charlie rose the week. Just ahead, a conversation with a comedian who has become a favorite of late night. Being a boss has been very different. Setting stuff up myself has been a challenge. Im not i dont there are kind of basicc that. Thats what i learned. Rose well have john oliver and on what happened and what might happen funding for charlie rose was provided by the following

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