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Do you believe in traditional healing practices?

This content was published on Dec 11, 2012 Experts warn that faith healing can be dangerous if it’s the only healing method used or if healers gather a fanatical following. Given that they are providing a type of medical intervention, should faith healing practices be regulated, and why?

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Paranormal practitioners face trial by TV

This content was published on Dec 11, 2012 The consumer programme, “Kassensturz” examined a number of different types of healers. Swissinfo focused on three of the tests. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

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Prayer healing still engrained in Swiss culture

This content was published on Dec 11, 2012 Olivier Pochon, who lives in canton Fribourg, says he went to a hospital in canton Valais several years ago with a severe second-degree burn on his leg. The burn was painful, and the nurse at the hospital gave his father the phone number of a prayer healer who she said could help ease the pain…

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No asylum visas yet granted under new system

This content was published on Dec 10, 2012 The policy enacted since September says that those seeking asylum can no longer file applications at Swiss embassies, unless they find themselves in clearly life-threatening danger. In that case, a humanitarian visa would be issued, but no such case has gone through so far. According to Gaby Szöllosy, spokeswoman for the migration office, humanitarian visas…

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Birthplace plays a role in success

This content was published on Dec 10, 2012 As part of a project commissioned by the federal government in 2007, the Federal Statistics Office is gathering and analysing data about how well foreigners have integrated. According to Swiss law, foreigners who are legally in the country long-term have the right to the same economic, social and cultural opportunities as native Swiss. The first…

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Universal human rights challenged in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 10, 2012 In recent years, the rightwing Swiss People’s Party has challenged the universality of international law stemming from the Declaration of Human Rights first adopted in 1948. The party’s main concern is primacy of international legislation over national laws established by the Vienna Convention in 1969. Opportunities to attack what is considered interference by foreign “judges”…

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Public transport – how taxpayers’ money is invested

This content was published on Dec 9, 2012 The national government, the cantons and the communes invest about SFr5 billion ($5.4 billion) into the operation and the maintenance of public transport every year. The network continues to expand. In 1962, the railways, regional buses, trolleybuses, tramways, cableways and funiculars covered a distance of 16,235 kilometres. By 2012, the entire network extended over 25,571…

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Airports pursue their growth

This content was published on Dec 7, 2012

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McDonald’s pushed to rebrand hamburger

This content was published on Dec 6, 2012 In advertisements broadcast on Swiss television, the company stated that its special burger contained alpine cheese – Alpkäse in German. This was sufficient to draw the attention of the German-language Agricultural Information Service (LID), a public relations and news service backed by farming associations. LID’s interest was piqued by the use of the term “alpine”,…

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