Prayer for healing.
The parish of St. Mary's, Sioux Lookout, Ont., in the diocese DIOCESE, eccl. law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions. 1 B1. Com. 111. of Keewatin, joined the annual Day of Prayer for Community Healing in September organized by the Nishnawbe Aski Nation Nishnawbe Aski Nation (ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯ ᐊᔅᑭ ᐃᔥᑯᓂᑲᓇᓐ ᐅᑭᒫᐎᓐ (Anishinaabe-aski Ishkoniganan Ogimaawin), unpointed: , where suicide has reached an alarming rate.
Deputy grand chief Goyce Kakegamic told Wawatay News that 291 residents had committed suicide since 1986. "That is a tremendous amount of people. They're not unstable or diseased dis·eased
adj.
1. Affected with disease.
2. Unsound or disordered. . They are just normal people who felt life had become worthless, futureless fu·ture·less
adj.
Having no prospect or hope of success in one's future.
fu ture·less·ness n.
Adj. 1. ."
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