INTRODUCTION The Tepeyac Project is a church-based health promotion project that was conducted from 1999 through 2005 to increase breast cancer screening rates among Latinas in Colorado. Previous reports evaluated the project among Medicare and Medicaid enrollees in the state. In this report, we evaluate the program among enrollees in the state's five major insurance plans. METHODS We compare...

The wall paintings from the main churches of three monasteries in Thessalia, Central Greece, all painted in the post-Byzantine period, were investigated using micro-analytical techniques. The main goal was to offer insights into the decorative technique of mordant gilding and to provide evidence on the identity of the painter. INTRODUCTION In the preparation of wall paintings, specific features...

INTRODUCTION Religion is important in most African communities, but faith-based HIV prevention programmes are infrequent and very rarely evaluated. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a church-based peer education HIV prevention programme that focused on youth. DESIGN A quasi-experimental study design compared non-randomly chosen intervention and control gro...

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The Swiss Council of Religions decisively rejects the Minaret Initiative. The Council, which consists of leaders from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities, is dedicated to protecting religious peace in Switzerland and to strengthening trust among the churches and religious communities. The Minaret Initiative would bring about just the opposite. It instrumentalizes religion for politica...

HDI’s interdisciplinary approach facilitates cu"ing edge and innovative solutions. HDI’s collaborative approach builds partnerships with churches, faith-based organizations, humanitarian organizations, private research organizations, individual scientific collaborators, academic centers, and state and federal agencies. Our aim is to compliment or extend the success of these organizations by joi...

In the article, author talks about stage of rapprochement between Roman Catholic Church and largest ecumenical organization, World Council Churches (WCC), at turn 1950s–1960s, as well continuation interaction Vatican WCC within framework Joint Working Group. At initial Churches’ history refused any contacts n reacted negatively to movement. The article explains reasons that served change positi...

This study is about the architecture of churches designed in Kırkkilise sanjak belonging to Edirne province Ottoman Empire between 1870-1913. was a period when Bulgarians could freely build their churches. The location as chosen focus since it one provinces with highest Bulgarian population during aforementioned period. study's methodology included an analysis and taken from plan schemes facade...

BACKGROUND Underrepresentation of older-age racial and ethnic minorities in clinical research is a significant barrier to health in the United States, as it impedes medical research advancement of effective preventive and therapeutic strategies. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to develop and test the feasibility of a community-developed faith-based intervention and evaluate its poten...

In the near future digital cameras will come standardly equipped with GPS and compass and will automatically add global position and direction information to the metadata of every picture taken. Can we use this information, together with information from geographical information systems and the Web more generally, to caption images automatically? This challenge is being pursued in the TRIPOD pr...