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The Role of Faith Communities in Preventing Suicide: A Report of an Interfaith Suicide Prevention Dialogue
A report from the Interfaith Suicide Prevention Dialogue convened by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center in 2008. It contains ideas for engaging faith communities in suicide prevention and developing interfaith suicide prevention initiatives, as well as the perspectives on suicide of five major religions practiced in the United States (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism) and the common themes among them. (Suicide Prevention Resource Center(link is external)
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