The Gates Foundation Promotes ONE's Holy Water Healing
Sun, November 21, 2010 
We read on fundamentalist and conservative blogs unease when moderates and liberals acknowledge the importance of God and spirituality in people’s lives. It’s easier to brand us as decadent members of the anti-Christ brigade, who are determined to make people choose between science and religion.
Anne has written several times in the last year, that all roads lead to Jerusalem. Going forward, we will do a better job communicating to readers the limitless ways that religion, science and health services are working together around the world.
ONE’s Holy Water Video
It wasn’t until the end of the Holy Water Healing video that we noticed its support by the Gates Foundation.
In this case, the ONE Foundation is working with local religious leaders to get help communicating that villagers don’t have to choose between holy water for healing and their AIDS medicine.
The Gates Foundation was stunned earlier this year to learn that polio was resurging in Africa, because certain Muslim leaders in Nigeria advised against polio vaccinations. In their sobering analysis of what was going wrong in their global health initiatives, the Gates Foundation decided to ‘go local’.
In Afghanistan, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation enlisted the help of local mullahs to assist them in improving women’s reproductive health in rural areas. Not only did the mullahs not fight the foundation’s desire to improve maternal health in Afghanistan, but they quoted verses from the Quran in which the women and their husbands were assured that the women’s medical services didn’t contradict their religious beliefs.
More reading:
The Gates Foundation Reboots Its Global Health Initiative
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