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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Followers of Christ (Oregon)</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Faith-healing parents launch Web offensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oregon City parents charged in the faith-healing death of their young daughter launched a counteroffensive today, debuting a new Web site and pledging a full-scale defense of their Constitutional right to religious freedom.]]></description>
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		<title>Former member of church calls group a cult</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The woman was raised in the Followers of Christ Church and was taught, from her earliest memory, that doctors are a temptation and if you go to one, you are losing faith in God.]]></description>
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		<title>Parents plead not guilty in faith healing death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Brent Worthington and Raylene Marie Worthington are the first parents prosecuted since Oregon cracked down on faith-healing deaths nine years ago, according to legislators and legal experts. If convicted, they could spend more than six years in prison.]]></description>
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		<title>Couple from faith-healing Oregon church indicted in baby&#8217;s death</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21014/followers-of-christ-church</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until the faith-healing death of an Oregon City girl this month, members of the Followers of Christ Church appear to have lost just one child to sickness since 1999, when Oregon banned parents from treating gravely ill children solely with prayer.]]></description>
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		<title>Toddler&#8217;s death not the first for Oregon faith healing church</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl and Raylene Worthingon are members of the “Followers of Christ Church” in Oregon City.  It's a church with a long history of child deaths., a history that led lawmakers to eliminate legal protections for parents who practice to faith healing.]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon City parents indicted in death of 15-month-old girl</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20997/ava-worthington-faith-healing</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Oregon City couple whose 15-month-old daughter died this month of medically treatable conditions surrendered to police tonight hours after a grand jury indicted them.]]></description>
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		<title>Death of child may put Oregon faith healing law to test</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20949/ava-worthington-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If prosecuted, Ava Worthington's parents would be the first members of Oregon City's Followers of Christ, a fundamentalist Christian denomination, to face criminal charges for failing to seek medical treatment for a gravely ill child. Of dozens of children buried since the 1950s in the Followers of Christ Church cemetery south of Oregon City, at least 21 could have been saved by medical intervention, according to a 1998 analysis by The Oregonian.]]></description>
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		<title>Child died for lack of treatment, medical examiner says</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20948/ava-worthington</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The child's parents are members of Followers of Christ, an Oregon City church that practices spiritual healing rather than seeking medical treatment, even when children become gravely ill.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith Or Healing?</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20950/followers-christ-faith-healing</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In June, Oregon state medical examiner Larry Lewman stated suspicions about the cemetery's owners, the 1,200-member Followers of Christ church. Over 10 years, he alleges, the faith-healing congregation's avoidance of doctors and hospitals may have cost the lives of 25 children, some under excruciating circumstances.]]></description>
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