| Show Section Thursday August 15 2002 Pagel The Herald Journal Missionaries MaMnda Andaraon daughter of Gordon and Paula Andaraon of Newton recently returned from the Oklahoma City Oklahoma LDS Mission She speaks at 12:45 pm Sunday in the Newton 1st Ward Heather Craner daughter of Mary Lou Craner of Logan and Jeny Craner of Idaho has accepted a caJI to eetve in the Thailand Bangkok LDS Mission She speaks at 11 am Sunday In the Crocket! LDS Ward 375 Lauralin Drive She enters the Missionary TtaMrig Center on Aug 21 Trevor Brent Dyer son of Brant and Darias Dyer of SmHhftBkl recently returned from the Taiwan Kaohsiung LDS Mission He speaks at 2:50 pm Sunday in the Smith-tiet- d 8th Ward 155 W 400 North Erik Falor son of Bil and Marriott Falor of SmKNiakJ has returned from the Taiwan Taichung LDS Mission He speaks Sunday 10:50 am at the Smithfield 11th Ward 179 N 100 East Brock H Findlay recently returned from the Australia Melbourne West LDS Mission He speaks at 2:50 pm Sunday in the 8mi1hfietd 12th Want 179k 100 East KeMn N Findlay has accepted a call to the California San Bernardino LDS Mission He speaks at 2:50 pm Sunday in the Smithfield 12ih Ward 179 N 100 East Ryan J laraelaen eon of Paul and Maggie leraeisen of North Logan has accepted a call to serve in the Philippines San Pablo' LDS Mission He speaks at 11:30 am Sunday hi the North Logan 11th Ward 1550 E 1900 North He enters the Missionary Training Center on Aug 28 Cslvln end VonDells Johnson have accepted a call to the Pennsylvania burg LDS Mission They speak at 2:50 pm Sunday in the Providence 3rd Ward 309 S Main They enter the MTC Aug 27 AP photo j Egypt is transfixed by a similar drama that highlights the dilemmas faced by Muslim society that wants to embrace the latest in medical technology without saking deeply held beliefs Muslim clergy is being consulted Egyptian conjoined twins Ahmed and Mohamad Ibrahim are seen in this file photo taken on March 6 in a Cairo hospital While the world watches the medical saga in California with the separation of the Alvarez twins of Guatemala lyrus Loiter son of Lowell and Jean Letter of Logan has recently returned from the Russian Novosibirsk LDSAfission: He Speaks at 9:30 am Sunday in the Yorkshire LDS Ward 294 N 100 East Logan - a f Ian McNeal son of Lyle and Nancy McNeal of Nihiey recently returned from the Chicago Illinois North LDS Mission He speaks at 12:50 pm Sunday in the Hyrum North Stake 245 N 750 East Clayton Merrill son of Jay and Mary has accepted a call to Egyptian conjoined twins pose more than Merrill of Trenton serve the Milwaukee Wisconsin LDS Misin the Trenton Ward 1200 N 400 West He enters the MTC Aug 21 In sion He speaks at 9 AIRO Egypt (AP) — Assured that Egyptian twins conjoined St the head could be separated Dr Nasser Abdel A1 convened 30 doctors Nicholas Matthew Nletson son of Matt and Coitsen Nielson of North Logan recant- ly returned from the England London LDS Mission He will speak at 9 am Sunday hi the North Logan 5th Ward 2750 N 800 - - sh Lyman Rust son of Dan and Brenda Bust of Smithfield recently returned from the Canada Montreal Spanish-speakin- g LDS Mission He speaks at 2:45 pm Sunday in the Smithfield 3rd Ward 200 S 100 EasL surgery Although there was a danger one or both might die the medical staff voted yes But there was another hurdle to overcome: getting the Islanpc clergy’s approval While the world watches the med- BM Sproat son of Jon and Amy Jensen of Richmond and Grant Sproat of Ogden has accepted a call to serve in the Qkla-- 1 homa Oklahoma City LDS Mission He speaks at 2:50 pm Sunday in the City Eric Wetterson son of Scott and Michele' ' Watteraon of River Heights recently returned from the Taipei Taiwan LDS Mis- sion He speaks at 9 am Sunday in the - Adam Whitney son of George and Juke Whitney of College Ward recently returned from the Guatemala City North LDS Mission He speaks at 1 pm Sunday In the College Ward 2394 W 2200 South Landon J Wood eon of David Q and Janet Wood of SL George formerly of Hyde - Park recently returned from the Now York New York North LDS Mission He speaks at 9 am Sunday In the Hyde Park 8th Ward Even so last month after a nationally broadcast program on the twins state television was deluged with 30000 letters and calls most saying die twins' condition was God’s will and they should not be separated according to program 480N1SIWM Daniel T Whits eon of Wayne and Linda White of Logan has recently returned from ' the Florida Tampa LDS MiasionHe speaks at 9 am Sunday hi the Logan 19th Ward 1255 N 600 EasL - Kant Thatcher son of DavId and Kathy Thatcher of Paradise has accepted a cal to serve In the Poland Warsaw LDS Mission He speaks at 11 am Sunday In the Par- adise 3rd Ward 9060 S 200 West He enters the Missionary Training Center on Aug-2- " 1 i By Richard N Ostling AP ReWon Writer Roligion roport As tire nation’sRomah Catholic bishops take time out startingr JVedraday to pray East and report for the clerical se abuse scandals there’s growing acrimony ovpr whether the reform policy tiiey is too harsh or too approved in June ' Stories sought i 11 about suicide bombings muidere i rapes and Wildfires and wants to write about love Bell is looking for “uplifting tntt e love stories” that “can be abput — a brothel sister child parent special friend or maybe even a 7 spouse” He plans to compile shook Stories can be mailed to Love Stories PO Box 168 Beaufort SC y 29901 or emailed to any-on- - lovestoriesislcneL : i - L- -- ' V - ' o i ' lenient : Victimsad vocates are accusing bishops oflax enforcement while some influentiaT chuich voices are Complaining tht abusers arc being scapegoated when some can be V rehabilitated There’a also been criticism of tiie national and local review boards meant to watch over the church's reform efforts One result of all the turmoil could be an extraordinary or “plenary” ' 1 ' v j e : —Abd Al Moati Bauomy Islamic scholar Interviewed in a cramped hospital Mohamed Ahmed el'Thyeb Egypt’s d cleric changing room he comes across as top government-appointeintense and friendly his speech! for written both approval gave separation provided doctors believed fast his voice soft at least one twin would survive and “I personally believe first of all as long as the surgery wasn’t in the will of God Secondly I “experimental” believe in medical facts" he said ' It was inevitable that the question to acknowledge thar the would be put to clerics in a country hope for these babies to have a only where any issue worth an opinion or normal life is to have separation j two is seenas having an Islamic The alternative is infirmity is being j aspect crippled for life” Newspaper and Internet columns telephone hot lines and TV call-i- n i Ontfw’Net: shows dispensing Islamic advice World Craniofacial Foundation’ have led many to expect religion to J j eb ! j j “We-hav- e - - council to discuss the overall Ametv can church situation Eight bishops' imposed that idea to colleagues July 18 and at least 40 other bishops have registered support for the meeting since It would be the first meet- ing of its kind since 1884 ' This week’s prayerful focus on the ' " sex scandals is pkt of the bishops’ abuse refonq package approved overwhelmingly June 14 in Dallas ' The bishops designated Wedries- - da for private fasting and penance over their past failings followed by prayers of repentance oh Thursday' : tiie feast of the Virgin Mary’s Assumption and a day when Catholics are obliged to attend Mass The bishops invited priests and lay Catbolics to join them in prayer though imy public observances were left up to each local diocese What-- i I wwwwotidcfjrrg Discord develops as Catholics fast pray ' Kendall Bell the weekend editor at ' The Bbaufort Gazette in Beaufoft SC is ready for some good news Bells says he’s tired of writing ) “There are general Islamic commands that guide everyone here" provide easy answers Some clerics use their power to make their fatwa or religious opinion seem like an order A few have called for' attacks on those who disobey or disagree j Despite the degree of opposition J to the operation suggested by the response to the TV program no cleric of importance is known to have demanded an outright ban on separating the twins Meanwhile the Dallas-base-d World Craniofacial Foundation is ' overseeing and helping fund the twins' stay in Texas and doctors and the hospital-ardonating services Abdel Al the doctor says he wants to make a special effort to make sure the country understands any decision made about the twins’ ' future' - ' East River Heights 3rd Ward 8Q0 S 600 ' ical saga unfolding in Los Angeles with the separation of the Alvarez twins of Guatemala Egypt is transfixed by a similar drama that highlights the dilemmas faced by a Muslim society that wants to embrace the latest in medical tech-nology without forsaking deeply held beliefs It’s because of advances in Egypt’s health system that Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrahim are still alive 14 months after being bom to a laborer’s family in rural southern Egypt and have a chance — however risky — at normal lives Creek Ward 150 S 100 EasL Richmond He enters the MTC Sept 4 said “If there are two points of view from two religious authorities a person goes with the one that makes most sense to him It's a personal decision” ' After consulting the staff Abdel Al head of Abu Hospital's neonatal surgical intensive care unit consulted Grand Mufti Sheik host Tarek Allam While not a scien- tific survey of opinion the response showed how the chse has gripped the nation Specialists cannot predict the chances for successful surgery because small parts of the twins’ brains overlap In June the boys were sent toNorth Texas Hospital for Children in Dallas for evaluation and their Ibrahim father Mohammed Ibrahim has since decided the operation should It has not yet been scheduled For Islamic scholars such as Abd A1 Moati Bauomy the case poses a quandary “Ah life is impossible like this” said Bauomy retired dean of the Faculty of Islamic Jurisprudence at Cairo’s A1 Azhar University the premier scholarly institution in the Sunni Muslim world as he studied a sketch of the twins’ heads and the delicately interconnected blood ves- sels and brain matter He knew it would be hard for the twins to live a proper life conjoined but said the dangers of surgery also had to be taken into account In the end he refused to come down firmly fin1 or against saying those closest to Ahmed and Mohammed should seek a solution that as an Islamic tenet decrees does “the least harm” “There are general Islamic commands that guide everyone here” he Hosand nurses at the Abu pital a fewweeks ago and asked if they favored going ahead with the East just a medical dilemma t e ever events are held they’ll come Catholics in “scapegoating v'"abusers”amid an atmosphere of increasing ' The also was scapegoating charge public discord Last week leaders of the nation's leyeled by an influential conseiW- five the Rev Richdrd Jqhn religious borders — representing third a the US of 46000 roughly Neuhaps in the current issue of his Fust Things magazine priests — decided that abusers ' should continue in church work He said thq bishops’ actions on j under“severe restrictions" Sind be six abue were “morally dubious” - t resulted from paiiic and were sinful t kept apart from youths 'restrictive That’s less than the violations of Christian teachings oi ' ' bishops’ policy which says pfTend- mercy and justice ' The Survivor Network of those' ers should be reduced to lay status Abused by Priests thought little of or else limited to a life of “prayer and penance” Both organizations the religipus orders' efTorfs to stop not abuse and is dquilly dubious about offenders will that agree perform the bishops claiming instances of publicfonctioiis such as saying lax enforcement in at least five dioMass for parishioners ’ The Rev Canice Connors presi- ceses Two lay members on a dent of the orders’ association said the bishops — with their harsher review board in Richmond Va quit penalties — could be looked on as See ABUSE on Ci joining the media victims and rank- and-fil- ' - - : : |
