World News 15-10-2003 who: Bishop of Durham Rt Rev Tom Wright what: Slams hospital trials of "prayer power" where: Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, USA when: Yesterday snippet: A three year study involving 750 heart patients and 12 prayer groups around the world has failed to prove that prayer helps to heal the sick, reports an unsurprised Telegraph. The Bishop of Durham dismisses the experiment as crude, insisting that "prayer is not a penny-in-the-slot machine. You can`t just put in a coin and get out a chocolate. This is like setting an exam for God to see if God will pass it or not." [... more]

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