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When it comes to dealing with illness, most Americans turn to a higher power for help, a new study suggests. "Outside of belief in God, there may be no more ubiquitous religious expression in the U.S.

At the Fairfax Community Church in Virginia, the faithful regularly pray for ailing strangers. Same goes at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington and the Islamic Center of Maryland in Gaithersburg.

Maimonides said it plainly: “there is health and illness to the soul, just as there is health and illness for the body has health and gets sick.” (Shemoneh Perakim 3) And there’s a prayer for that.