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  • 5 Feb 2007
    A culture of impunity

    I have been travelling in the Philippines where news of increased troop levels and warfare in Iraq reaches us. Although it has been many months since I was in Baghdad, where I listened to the stories of detainees, I have a clear image of the increased burden of violence. I imagine with horror the columns of military vehicles weaving their way in narrow streets where homes and storefronts of my friends' neighbourhoods abound.

  • 17 Jan 2007
    Martin Luther King and Iraq,Thought for the Day, BBC Radio 4, 17 January 2007
  • 14 Jan 2007
    Absurdity as the Theatre of War

    “Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day”, remarked Albert Camus, the existentialist philosopher of life in the face of the absurd. An atheist himself, he also once challengingly declared: “What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.” You don't get more theological than that.

  • 14 Jan 2007
    US Anabaptist denomination opposes escalation of conflict in Iraq

    The general secretary of the Church of the Brethren general board, Stanley J. Noffsinger, is among the first US Anabaptist leaders to respond to President Bush's recent speech about the Iraq conflict ‚Ä' with a call to make peace rather than war.

  • 12 Jan 2007
    US churches chief resists Bush's urge to surge

    The head of the leading US ecumenical body, the National Council of Churches USA, has described the call for more troops to be sent to Iraq as "morally unsupportable".

  • 12 Jan 2007
    Church groups call for alternatives to Bush's "unjust and unworkable" Iraq strategy

    Peace and security in Iraq will not come from increased levels of US troops and more warring ‚Ä' it will be achieved only by diplomacy, political processes, reconciliation, and reconstruction, says leading Quaker agency the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

  • 11 Jan 2007
    Christians protest over increase in US troops for Iraq

    Christians around the US will join others tonight at hundreds of meetings to protest against the announcement by President Bush last night to send 21,500 extra US troops to Iraq.