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WASHINGTON
- March 25 - ** MEDIA ADVISORY **
WHAT: Nobel
Peace Laureate Jody Williams of the International Campaign to
Ban Landmines and United Methodist Bishop C. Joseph Sprague
join This War is a ‘Crime Against Peace’! A Witness and Civil
Disobedience Action by Leaders from Religious, Human Rights
and Peace Organizations
WHO: Nobel
Peace Prize Laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams;
United Methodist Bishop C. Joseph Sprague; Former State and Defense
Department official Daniel Ellsberg; Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas
J. Gumbleton; Director of the Shalom Center Rabbi Arthur Waskow;
School of the Americas Watch founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois, MM; Fellowship
of Reconciliation Director Patricia Clark; Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Co-founder Tara Brach; National Coordinator of Pax Christi USA
Dave Robinson; Pax Christi USA National Council Chairperson Eric
Lecompte; and others.
WHEN: Wednesday
March 26, 2003, noon. Press conference will be held at New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1313 New York Avenue NW. (Interfaith
prayer service to be held at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, corner
of North Capitol and I Streets at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 25.)
WHERE: Washington
D.C.
WHY: Archbishop
Renato Martino, a Vatican spokesperson, immediately labeled this
war a “crime against peace.” Nobel Peace Laureate Williams and
United Methodist Bishop Sprague, join a growing list of religious,
peace and human rights leaders, -- including Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, former Defense and State Department
offical Daniel Ellsberg who released the Pentagon Papers, and
U.S. Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton -- leading Wednesday's action.
“The Bush administration’s
war on Iraq violates every value we hold as people of faith and
conscience,” said Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, who visited
Iraq in January. “Faith and conscience compel us to actively oppose
this war in word and deed, to do what we can to halt the killing.”
Wednesday’s
action is sponsored by Pax Christi USA, Fellowship of Reconciliation,
Sojourners, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, United Church
of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries, Shalom Center, and the
Washinton D.C.-area Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
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