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Verdict on first religious freedom report under Trump: Great rhetoric, what do we do?
- Analysis
- August 16, 2017
Given that President Donald Trump repeatedly has vowed to make defending religious freedom a key element of U.S. foreign policy, release of the first State Department International Religious Freedom Report on his watch was keenly anticipated. Overall, observers say there’s good stuff in it, but it still leaves the basic question unanswered: Having named the problem, what are we going to do about it?
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A pastor explains his politics after saying Trump has authority to attack North Korea
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- August 15, 2017
Pastor Robert Jeffress says people have overreacted to his statement that God has given President Donald Trump the authority to “take out” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Baptist leader said the Bible has given government the authority to use whatever force necessary, including assassination or war, to topple an evil dictator. The remarks came just a month after an article in a Vatican-approved journal said an Evangelical fundamentalism that was “not adverse to conflicts” was exerting influence on U.S. politics.
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Amid nuclear fears, remember a pope once helped avert Armageddon
- Analysis
- August 13, 2017
Though comparisons with North Korea’s threat to fire ballistic missiles near Guam and the Cuban Missile Crisis may be premature, the anxiety level is undeniable. The situation evokes memories of a pope in many ways cut from the same cloth as Francis, St. John XXIII, who helped prevent a nuclear war with a timely and passionate appeal for peace.
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Facing North Korean nuclear threat, Guam Catholics urged to ‘look to God’
- Global Church
- August 11, 2017
Following days of back-and-forth threats between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, the Archdiocese of Agana issued a statement asking the island’s residents to stay “calm and trust that the security of our island is in good hands” facing a North Korean threat to test-fire nuclear missiles nearby.
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Catholic bishops call for diplomacy to ease U.S.-North Korea differences
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 11, 2017
Writing the U.S. Secretary of State on current tensions with North Korea, Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico said “this crisis reminds us that nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction do not ensure security or peace. Instead, they exacerbate tensions and produce an arms race as countries acquire more weapons of mass destruction in an attempt to intimidate or threaten other nations.”
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U.S.-North Korea: Vatican official says conflict is ‘always the wrong way’
- Global Church, Vatican
- August 10, 2017
Speaking about the U.S.-North Korea crisis, Italian Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s former permanent observer to the United Nations, said that the situation shows how international relations can easily break down when there is a determination “to violate the minimum standard of common sense in dealing with other people.”
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