US: LUTHERAN ‘COMFORT DOGS’ BRING COMPASSION, CARE DURING DISASTERS
CATHLEEN FALSANI, of Religion News Service, reports on how a Lutheran Church ministry deploys dogs to bring comfort to those in hard times…
Therapy dogs heal traumatised survivors of brutal Ugandan war
Thomson Reuters Foundation Francis Okello wanted to kill himself after he was blinded at the age of 12 by an unexploded bomb while digging in his family garden in northern Uganda – until he made friends with a dog. “I would have nightmares,” said Mr Okello, who lives in an area that has been scarred […]