{"id":497,"date":"2007-06-04T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T08:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/06\/today-an-aids-h.html"},"modified":"2007-06-04T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T08:56:07","slug":"today-an-aids-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/06\/today-an-aids-h.html","title":{"rendered":"Today, An AIDS Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video is coming on the last few days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today, we were at an AIDS hospital and spent a lot of time in the infant ward. What can I say? Terrible, awful, depressing, scary&#8230;none of those words seem to do it justice. There were babies alone, and some in their mothers arms just waiting to die. We wept, we prayed, and we hoped. Afterwards, we went to an incredible place of hope, a Christian based center where the abandoned babies are cared for in a nurturing, loving way. 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