Church-Based Ministry to People with Disabilities in Malawi: A Case Study and Program Evaluation
The Meros Center supported an effort to evaluate a program in Malawi to provide church-based spiritual care to persons living with disabilities. A principal feature of this ministry was a worship service that paid attention to language, pace, duration, and content relevant to the disabilities prevalent to the...
Holistic management of skin neglected tropical diseases through church networks in the Songololo Territory, DRC
This article in the Christian Journal for Global Health shares the results of a study in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to engage faith leaders in referring people with Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) for treatment. Given 98.5% of the population in DRC is estimated to be Christian,...
Religiosity and University Students’ Attitudes About Vaccination Against COVID-19
This journal article by Jelena Ilić Petrović, Uroš V Šuvaković, and Ivko A Nikolić examines factors, including religion, driving hesitancy among students in Serbia to vaccinate against COVID-19. The researchers conducted an online snowball sample covering 361 students of the teacher education faculties in Serbia. The questionnaire consisted...
A Social Norms Analysis of Religious Drivers of Child Marriage
by Olivia Wilkinson, Kerida McDonald, Susanna Trotta, Jennifer Philippa Eggert and Florine de Wolf This article in Global Health: Science and Practice provides an analysis of social and behavioral drivers of child marriage to advance the protection and empowerment of girls from child marriage. Child marriage directly negatively...