A CHRISTIAN AT KABUL

A Christian Counseling Model: Christian

The integration between psychology and Christianity has been a hot issue for Christian counselors since mid 1970s. The movement of integration has been developed in reaction to the acceptance of psychology in the area of pastoral counseling without any criticism about psychology from the Christian viewpoint. Since Jay Adams totally rejected psychology in the area of pastoral care, the effort to...

A medical birth registry at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre.

OBJECTIVE To establish a medical birth registry intended to serve clinical, administrative and research purposes. METHODS Starting in July 2000, every birth at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania has been recorded in a separate database. The information is obtained through personal interviews with each mother, conducted by specially trained midwives, and supplied wi...

Self-sacrifice and self-destruction. A christian looks at suicide.

Anthroponotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Kabul, Afghanistan

A prevalence survey in Kabul City showed that 2.7% and 21.9% of persons have active leishmaniasis lesions or scars, respectively. Incidence of disease was estimated to be 2.9% (29 cases/1,000 persons per year; 95% confidence interval 0.018 to 0.031). Disease was associated with age and gender; logistic regression analyses showed significant clustering of cases.

Christian A. Herter, 1906