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3,000 Christians from Across America Coming to D.C. Worship and Protest to End Iraq War

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3,000 Christians from Across America Coming to D.C. Worship and Protest to End Iraq War

Christian Peace Witness Set for March 16th; Worship to be Followed by Procession to White House and Peaceful Protest

(ChristianPeaceWitness.org)

Thousands of Christians — Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics — from more than 40 states will fill the Washington National Cathedral to capacity on March 16th to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War. The worship service will be followed by a candlelight procession through the center of our nation’s capital to the White House, which thousands of Christians will surround with the light of peace.

Organized by a broad cross section of Christian organizations, Christian Peace Witness for Iraq is expected to be the largest expressly Christian war protest to take place since the War in Iraq began four years ago. To date, more than 20 bus loads of Christians will travel to Washington from states across the country, including Texas, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. More than 150 Christian and interfaith peace vigils and actions will also be held around the country, including large-scale acts of moral civil disobedience organized by Christian Peace Witness coalition member group the Declaration of Peace.

WHAT: Christian Peace Witness for Iraq

WHEN: Friday March 16, 2007 at 7 p.m. (admission tickets required, visit

http://www.christianpeacewitness.org

Candlelight Procession at 8 p.m.; Peaceful Protest at White House at 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: Washington National Cathedral, the White House

WHO:
• Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners/Call to Renewal and author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It.
• Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, president for the North American Conference of the World Council of Churches
• Rick Ufford-Chase, executive director of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and former moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
• Rev. Raphael Warnock, Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga.
• Celeste Zappala, a United Methodist and founding member of Gold Start Families Speak Out, whose son was killed in Iraq in April 2004

Prominent religious leaders and peace activists, including Jim Wallis, Celeste Zappala, Bernice Powell Jackson, and Raphael Warnock will speak at the National Cathedral worship service. After the service, thousands of Christians will process three miles by candlelight to the White House, where a solemn, prayerful vigil will dramatize the Christian call for peace in Iraq. As part of the vigil, participants, including many clergy members, will encircle the White House with a band of candlelight to express their conviction that the teachings of Jesus call unequivocally for an end to the war.

Please visit

http://www.christianpeacewitness.org

for more information and to see a list of our sponsor organizations.

CONTACT: Katie Barge, 202-481-8147 / 202-243-8289, kbarge@faithinpubliclife.org; Dan Nejfelt, 202-745-4654, dnejfelt@sojo.net or Jack Pannell, 202-745-4625 jpannell@sojo.net

Forum posts

  • It’s great to see Christians trying to do the REAL work of Christ, trying to be PEACEmakers, and lending their voices to those that cannot support an OFFENSIVE war to secure Treasure and Power, based on lies. In fact it is hard for me to believe ANY one who professes understanding of what Yeshua taught, could ever be anything but abhored at the hundreds of thousands of innocents that have been slain and wounded all based on those same lies. It would be great to see devoted PRACTICING Christians raise up their voices to what they KNOW is true and be a witness to trying to END these resource and power wars and show they are more than just hearers of The Word but followers and Practicianers of it as well. LET MY PEOPLE GO! Bring them home NOW!

  • So where were you NAIVE,MANIPULATED,fools when Bush and the Zionist manipulators were selling us on the concept of the "hussein/bin laden" alCIAda,creature from Hell ....and the WMD that were and are NONEXISTANT.....
    ....Answer: believing the BULLSHIT "lock stock and barrel"... 2 elections in a row..NO ,make that 4 out of the last 5 elections(reagan,bush sr. included)bear in mind Clinton was the /Bush/Zionist version of Good Cop in the classic 2 Party,Good Cop/ Bad Cop game they have worked for 100 years..
    ..........Thanks a lot for TOO LITTLE,TOO LATE....
    ....How many of you Christians are currently getting "sucked" into the IRAN has a NUKE LIE and simultaneously fail to discern that the Israeli’s have 400+ nukes,READY TO GO!!!
    ......................celtic canine(my parents were/are Baptists)
    ....P.S..You remind me of the old Saturday Night Live character,Emily Latella,who when confronted with her misinterpretations of facts and details,would say.."nevermind" ..as if that made things ALL BETTER!!!..and quit praying to the Old Testament propaganda’s pseudo-god YAHWEH of the "chosen ones" ..............this is the BIG mistake OF both CHRISTIANITY & ISLAM.....

    • It is probably best for the sake of accuracy to remember that the teachings of the Essene affiliated Yeshua have little to do with what passes for "christianity" as practiced by the modern day "churchianity" crowd. The Way as taught by Yeshua is more closely aligned with Buddhist type thinking and only through the efforts of *Rome* became a castrated, ineffective, passive, "Opiate of the masses". When I use the word Christian I am referring NOT to the Wolves in Sheeps clothing such as the Falwells or Robertsons of the world, but rather to those who HONESTLY seek the Peace and Prosperity of life as enshrined by The Way. Honest "Christians" that live the lives of "Seekers of Truth" unfortunately have been given a black eye by those who hide behind ’christianity’ to steal, murder, and attempt to make subserviant their fellow man and women. Do not be misled. No HONEST INFORMED Christian that I know of supports OFFENSIVE wars based on lies that murder hundreds of thousands of innocent non-combatants so that another country can illegally lay hold of their land, resources, and make them subserviant to The System of The Beast.

    • Bah! Yaweh and his slaves are so pathetic. "The meak" have always inherited a smack in the teeth. Soon Bush will start sending you all to the prison camps for "correction" and nobody in America has the brains, or the guts, to pick up their big guns and take their country back. It’s like Nazi Germany all over again. Any spirit of independence that ever existed in America has been destroyed by Christianity. Christianity destroyed the Romans and now it destroys America. Christianity gives people divided loyalties. How can you be a loyal American while serving the god of Israel? "In god we trust!" Yea right! You’d be better off trusting a rattlesnake, but then, of course, nobody in America has the guts to get out that Gadsden flag and fly it any more. Whatever happened to "Don’t tread on me"? It’s been replaced by "We want to die for Jesus". I so despise Americans. You are the lowest form of life on this planet.

    • The early followers of The Way were reported to carry swords and though taught to not use them offensively were not immune to being provoked into lopping off an ear every now and then of their persecutors. My guess is the story of Peter when he used his sword deals with his intent to take the head of the Roman attacker rather than simply severe an ear. Honest so called ’christians" that TRULY follow The Way are not the enemy of humanity. To lump them in with the Fake Christians as ONE is simply a stereotype no better than claiming ALL Muslims are terrorits or All Americans are greedy or All Germans are Nazis, or All of any other group is bad or good. That thinking misses the mark and throws the baby out with the bath water so to speak, and plays right into the hands of the divide and conquer strategists. I personally try to avoid whenever possible the inaccurate viewing of ALL Republicans, or ALL DEmocrats, or ALL of any group as much as I can because their are always many exceptions. I will admit I use the term Neo-Cons in a rather derogatory way simply because I have found NOBODY in "that group" that seems NOT to share their ideaology, however MAYBE just maybe there is someone of that ilk who still belives in The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and puts America before Israel BUt I’m not holding my breath waiting for them to materialize.

    • I’m curious; if you attend a Christian demo are you forced to eat body of Jesus sandwiches, and drink bottles of Jesus’s blood? I don’t think I would want to mix with such cannibals.

    • Hi, to answer your question, no I have never even heard of Jesus sandwiches or anyone drinking any blood, though perhaps if you are referring to the ritual practiced in some churches of communion wafers and wine, I believe it’s most always a voluntary thing, though I don’t pracice the ritual myself. Again, it’s possible you may be confusing what I call "churchianity" with simply trying to live in "The Way" which is a mode of living of fairness, non-agression, justice, and all of the values most of the Truth communuity practices anyway. Google up people like "christian" Phil Berrigan who worked his entire life to try and be a force for good in the world, and IMO you will find a life spent in what I call The Way. It is a shame Fake X-ians like the Fallwells and Assassination promoters like Pat Robertson are what people think of instead of the Berrigans or Mother Theresa’s of the world when they think of "chrisitians". A "Christian" really is only someone who follows the Way of Life, Yeshua taught and I can’t really find many people who don’t hold the ideals he taught in high esteem. Because some people call themselves "christians" while murdering and stealing from their neighbors like the fake "christians" in the Whore House, it really shouldn’t taint the image of the honest ones doing the "good works" in the world.

    • So which of the two laws of Christ’s Way would be deserving of persecution:

      Loving God/good and persueing the perfection of both

      LOving your bother/sister as your self

      TRuly an innocent man was murdered by those who loved illusion and wealth above all.

    • Good point about the Essene/Buddhist connection..BUT ..as long as the New Testament is attached to the Hebrewcentric propagandistic CRAP in the Old testament(pentateuch),the average gullible Christian(and muslim!!) will continue to think that the "god"Father of Jesus is the EVIL VERMIN YAHWEH!!!!!
      .........Just ask my Baptist mother and father and their preacher and fellow church members...
      .....this genetic,spiritual,"attachment" to the Pentateuch is the lynchpin of the HebrewZionist CONTROL of the 2 spunoff,Hebrew "wannabe" Goyim’religions....The attachment infers that the Sons of Abraham are "god’s chosen people"...which,unfortunately ,is TRUE.....the BIG QUESTION IS: "Chosen for WHAT?!!!.....Answer: to provoke mankind into WAR,Hatred,Fear of oneanother,disunity,distrust,.....to deny all of us the AWARENESS of our ’oneness of spirit" that we SOOOO sorely need to understand at this CRITICAL point in Human History!!!
      ..celtic canine

    • quite right, celtic canine, I see that too, the writers in the old test. who felt they were smiled upon by "god" for being saved came to think of themselves as "chosen" and recorded it in THEIR history book, I happen to think they were a little BIASED, and have somehow ended up feeling SPECIAL over the other "races". Hitler’s Germany should have showed them they are no more chosen for Providence’s special protection than any other group of people. Much of what the prophet Yeshua taught sought to tear down the very illusional myths that the old test perpetuated, and afterwards to make matters worse the Roman Empire took the honest Buddhist like teachings of Yeshua of simple compassion and justice and destroyed their true meaning in order to make the newly formed ’christian political threat" into a subserviant one for The State. Yeshua’s actual teachings were hijacked and have been every since except to perhaps those who understand their true roots in the Essene connection. Loving one’s brother/sister was originally a rule of conduct in The Brotherhood/Sisterhood but was expanded to include a type of tolerance even for the Roman and Jewish Elitist persecutors. However this "turning of the other cheek" philospohy had limits and we can see even the early followers of The Way appeared to carry swords and weapons to Protect themselves when all else failed.

    • I am not a christian but love the "golden rule" as the only law necessary to live by in a civil way. Loveing your enemy, god, your neighbor isn’t a bad thing either. If you only look for the bad in others you will surely find it. Look for the good, too. I support anyone marching to end war, thank you brothers and sisters.