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 | | Only when a corpse missing internal organs is found floating around the docks of a major city, or when a dead or dying street child is taken from a garbage dump to an emergency room where large surgical scars are uncovered, does the Latin American public ask questions about organ transplants. |
 | | Also important is the identity, especially the religious role and training, of individual slaves captured and taken to any location, and the extent to which the local slave population engaged in syncretism with Iberian Catholicism. |
 | | The Catholic sacrament of anointing the sick, while only weakly addressing curing, does demonstrate the concern of the community for the sick, and may involve a personal caring of the ritual provider for the sick though this relationship is often impersonal due to the size of congregations, which may exceed 30,000, even 40,000 nominal members. |
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