Black churches push prostate cancer awareness

(RNS) Thomas A. Farrington isn't looking for cards or a tie this
Father's Day. What he really wants, he says, is for other black men
sitting in the pews with a prostate cancer diagnosis to know they're not
alone.

Two years ago, Farrington, the founder of the Boston-based Prostate
Health Education Network (PHEN), launched Father's Day Rallies Against
Prostate Cancer to raise awareness -- and emotional support -- in black
churches and civic groups.

Any given Sunday, he said, "you can be sitting next to a fellow
member and not know that you both have prostate cancer or that he has
survived what you're going through."