March 30, 2007: Thailand AIDS Refuge
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Four years ago our correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited an AIDS hospice in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. This year he went back and discovered that low-cost new drugs...
View ArticleApril 6, 2007: Volunteers in Tanzania
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a story today about volunteers who go to another country to help take care of the poor and sick and discover they’re getting back much more than they give. Lucky...
View ArticleOctober 5, 2007: Marc Gunther Extended Interview
Read more of the R & E interview about religious investing with Fortune magazine writer Marc Gunther, author of FAITH AND FORTUNE: HOW COMPASSIONATE CAPITALISM IS TRANSFORMING AMERICAN BUSINESS: I...
View ArticleNovember 28, 2008: HIV Ministry
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Bishop T.D. Jakes and other black church leaders announced a new initiative to promote HIV/AIDS testing and awareness in their congregations. Almost half of all new HIV...
View ArticleJune 13, 2008: Indiana Doctor in Kenya
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: At the start of this year, in Kenya in East Africa, terrible, largely tribal violence took more than a thousand lives and drove hundreds of thousands from their homes. But...
View ArticleJuly 2, 2010: Post-Apartheid South Africa
FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: South Africa has spent six billion dollars just on stadiums—money that could have gone to many pressing needs in a poor country. But that debate has been set aside...
View ArticleMay 11, 2012: Social Entrepreneur Mechai Viravaidya
FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: It looks more like a theme park than a school, and it’s not just the location. In one of Thailand’s most impoverished regions that’s unusual. The buildings are...
View ArticleBlessing the AIDS Quilt
While the 19th international AIDS conference meets this week in Washington, the National Cathedral is hosting several panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The Right Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon, retired...
View ArticleDecember 7, 2012: Haiti Priest Doctor
FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: Early each morning in the chapel of St. Damien’s Children’s Hospital, the shrouded bodies of infants—and one adult on this day—are counted, the names written down...
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