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Category - Barack Obama

23 Oct 2012

US survey exposes simplistic evaluations of 'values voters'

The new PRRI report details how Catholic and unaffiliated Americans are responding to US presidential debates over issues like taxes and social programmes.
19 Oct 2012

Missing issues from the US presidential debate

US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney tackled some important issues - including jobs, immigration, energy, and pay equity for women - in their recent TV debate. But they missed a whole lot more, says the progressive evangelical 'Sojourners' magazine and movement.
3 Oct 2012

Protesters ask Obama for protection from drones

The legal charity, Reprieve, has asked Barack Obama for a guarantee that an international protest march through North West Pakistan will not be hit by CIA drones.
2 Sep 2012

Obama and Romney's religious stances in the spotlight

Barack Obama, says it's not his job to defend his Christian faith against doubters who suspect he's Muslim. Mitt Romney says his Mormonism is "integral".
2 Aug 2011

Greens say that the world economy is being 'held to ransom'

The Green Party has questioned the viability and legitimacy of a world financial system that is being held to ransom by a few people in a single country.
1 Aug 2011

US deficit deal set to hit the vulnerable and protect the rich

The world's largest debtor nation, the United States, is set for a deficit ceiling deal which will result in cuts hitting some of the most vulnerable.
25 Jun 2011

US religious leaders call for a complete end to the Afghan war

A group of 40 religious leaders in the United States have called for President Barck Obama to "bring the war in Afghanistan to an end."
8 May 2011

Obama and Osama: A story for kids?

Explaining to children the irrationality of adult behaviour is always challenging, says Sande Ramage. But in the case of the killing of Osama Bun Laden it is almost an impossibility.
5 May 2011

Archbishop of Canterbury questions killing of Bin Laden

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has said that the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US special forces makes him feel "uncomfortable".
5 May 2011

Celebrating death (even Bin Laden's) demeans our humanity

So President Obama has decided that he will not release the image of Osama bin Laden’s body. The reason, he says, is that it could be used for propaganda purposes by terrorist organisations. How about the fact that making public the blood-stained and damaged body of a human being is just plain unpleasant, undignified and quite wrong?

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