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    Argentina Approves Law on Spiritual Assistance for Prisoners

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    By Joyce Dimaculangan

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    A Christian senator in Argentina gets approval for a law on spiritual assistance for prisoners.

    Héctor Bonarrico, the Christian senator from the province of Mendoza in Argentina, authored a bill which allows religious institutions to provide spiritual guidance to prisoners. Approved by the Argentinian parliament on September 2, the law permits members of government-registered religious groups to share the faith to inmates, reports Evangelical Focus.

    Religion not only acts as an expiation of guilt, but it also makes the deprivation of freedom tolerabl