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"This is a moment when anyone who believes in prayer would be praying. But would it do any good? Even if it couldn’t change the course of events, would it make people feel better?

"Might it even make them healthier? The thinktank Theos has now ground through 139 studies of these questions to discover whether there is a link, and if so, what is linked to what. This isn’t just a question of interest to believers but one that has wider implications for our horribly disrupted political life."

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