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  • 23 Feb 2007
    US Christians will pray, process and protest against Iraq war

    Many thousands of Christians -Evangelicals, Protestants, Orthodox, Anglicans, peace churches, Black majority congregations and Roman Catholics - are preparing to pray, process and protest throughout the United States on 16 March 2007, to mark the fourth anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq.

  • 21 Jan 2007
    Methodist minister says Bush link would associate church with torture

    A California-Nevada clergyman who is a key organizer behind the campaign to prevent President George W. Bush from getting a half billion dollar presidential library at Southern Methodist University (SMU) has explained the motivation behind his campaign ‚Ä' which includes a condemnation of Bush's endorsement of torture.

  • 19 Jan 2007
    Progressive US Christians offer alternative 'State of the Union'

    Online members of FaithfulAmerica.org, an alliance of progressive US Christians and other religious believers, have been writing their own 'Faithful State of the Union' address in anticipation of next Tuesday's annual report to the nation from the president, George W. Bush.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 3 Oct 2006
    Reject the warrior God-on-our-side, say US church leaders

    Two senior United States church leaders have sent out a clear message to the White House and the religious right that God cannot be co-opted as a ‘warrior divinity’ serving national or sectional i