U.S. church alliance denounces Iraq war

Saturday, February 18, 2006 · Last updated 10:05 a.m. PT

U.S. church alliance denounces Iraq war

By BRIAN MURPHY
AP RELIGION WRITER


In this photo released by Agencia Brasil, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, speaks during the 9th Assembly by the World Council of Churches in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2006. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged churches and religious leaders Friday to cooperate more closely to speed social and economic reforms in Latin America's largest nation. Speaking to a World Council of Churches gathering, Silva said churches have an "irreplaceable role in the task of transforming Brazil," whose economy has been growing but remains burdened by widespread poverty and limited public services in some regions. (AP Photo/Ricardo Stuckert-AGENCIA BRASIL/HO)

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- A coalition of American churches sharply denounced the U.S.-led war in Iraq on Saturday, accusing Washington of "raining down terror" and apologizing to other nations for "the violence, degradation and poverty our nation has sown."

The statement, issued at the largest gathering of Christian churches in nearly a decade, also warned the United States was pushing the world toward environmental catastrophe with a "culture of consumption" and its refusal to back international accords seeking to battle global warming.

"We lament with special anguish the war in Iraq, launched in deception and violating global norms of justice and human rights," said the statement from representatives of the 34 U.S. members of World Council of Churches. "We mourn all who have died or been injured in this war. We acknowledge with shame abuses carried out in our name."

The World Council of Churches includes more than 350 mainstream Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches; the Roman Catholic Church is not a member. The U.S. groups in the WCC include the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Methodist Church, several Orthodox churches and Baptist denominations, among others.

The statement is part of widening religious pressure on the Bush administration, which still counts on the support of evangelical churches and other conservative denominations but is widely unpopular with liberal-minded Protestant congregations.


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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Brazil_Churches_Iraq.html

As more liberal churches step forward and denounce Dominionism. What will prove stronger? Their faith in a just god, or the dominionist drive to do the 'will' of the god that puts white man first, above all?

Check it out for yourself.

..The statement is part of widening religious pressure on the Bush administration, which still counts on the support of evangelical churches and other conservative denominations but is widely unpopular with liberal-minded Protestant congregations.

with the reps of the US Council of Churches, including the Methodist.

right? :eyes:

before bush's war of aggression...as did most every church leader around the world, calling bush's invasion illegal, immoral and unjust.

Did bush give a fuck then?

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -

A coalition of American churches sharply denounced the U.S.-led war in
Iraq on Saturday, accusing Washington of "raining down terror" and apologizing to other nations for "the violence, degradation and poverty our nation has sown."

The statement, issued at the largest gathering of Christian churches in nearly a decade, also warned the United States was pushing the world toward environmental catastrophe with a "culture of consumption" and its refusal to back international accords seeking to battle global warming.

"We lament with special anguish the war in Iraq, launched in deception and violating global norms of justice and human rights," said the statement from representatives of the 34 U.S. members of World Council of Churches.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060218/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_churches_iraq_1

I would like to read more about this.
Thanks.

Where the fuck were you?? It's about goddamn time, I fear too little, too late. News blackout on this group

bush invaded.

But ya wouldn't have known that if ya went by the US "media".

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