Rick Bella
Rick Bella is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Rick Bella
Murder-suicide desperation prompts soul-searching in Oregon
By Rick Bella — April 17, 2012
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) After a botched murder-suicide involving a desperate older couple, experts in health and legal services are asking how two very poor people with disabilities found themselves in such desperate circumstances. By Rick Bella.
Another faith-healing death brings more scrutiny on church
By Rick Bella — June 20, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The painful and apparently preventable faith-healing death of a 16-year-old boy on Tuesday (June 17) brings the secretive Followers of Christ church back under legal scrutiny, just four months after the boy’s infant niece died in similar circumstances. But unlike the girl’s death, which resulted in criminal […]
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