Witness Against Torture

We Mourn for Our Country: We Will Not Be Silent!

October 14, 2008

Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture October 17, 2006 A gray sky, with drizzle turning to a hard rain, accurately reflected our pain this morning as the shameful Military Commissions Act was signed into law.  Wearing black as a sign of mourning, about two hundred of us gathered with our umbrellas in front of...
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Torture Should Never Be Official U.S. Policy

October 10, 2008

FR. LOUIS VITALE, OFM The San Francisco Chronicle Friday, April 21, 2006 Revelations of torture in Abu Ghraib and other U.S.-sponsored prisons have shocked the world. They also have brought the subject of torture and our country’s participation in this practice into our consciousness. Perhaps even more shocking is the knowledge that torture has...
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Jesus, Our Tortured Brother Today

October 10, 2008

By Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC)   Jesus, Our Tortured Brother, In this world, so many are forced to walk your path today: the suffering and the pain, the humiliation and the betrayal and abandonment, for those with power, the Romans of today, continue to condemn others to...
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A Christian Call to Stop Torture!

October 10, 2008

Pax Christi USA will publish this statement in National Catholic Reporter and Roll Call, Congress’s daily newspaper! Make sure to endorse by April 10, 2006 to have your name included! “The thought of Jesus being stripped, beaten and derided until his final agony on the cross should always prompt a Christian to protest against...
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