Volunteers are being sought by the Church of England to aid its chaplaincy service at two Shropshire hospitals.

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The Pentagon, of course, is taking this subversion of its chaplaincy program seriously.

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Meador, Director, and Dr. Jason A. Nieuwsma, Associate Director, of Mental Health and Chaplaincy at the Durham VA Medical Center.

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These chaplaincy-training programs are "where academic theologies come to die, " he says.

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"Creating a strong research foundation of what chaplains do in the clinical setting will mark the coming of age of health-care chaplaincy as a profession, " he says.

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Still, a review in the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy concludes that many studies haven't been rigorous enough to test effectiveness and define the best practices of chaplains' care.

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"Every dimension of health care has to be accountable, " says Walter Smith, a Jesuit priest and president of the nonprofit Health Care Chaplaincy in New York, which conducted the review and provides chaplains to area hospitals.

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Alamoudi has a long public record that indicates why his instrumentality in founding and shepherding the U.S. Muslim military chaplain program unfortunately calls into question the integrity of the entire Muslim chaplaincy, and requires thorough investigation.

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But prison authorities stopped Mr Harrison from seeing Park a month before the inmate's death after they ruled he did not fit the criteria of a pastoral visitor and that Park's religious needs could be met through its chaplaincy service.

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