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		<title>The War Abroad, The War at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marie Dennis Pax Christi International, July 10, 2008  The War Abroad He&#8217;s leaning against a tree The wood has been sold The land leased The water poisoned The rain kills the birds Somebody takes aim at him He raises his arms against the black wood It is not finished   (Dorothy Soelle) For many hours I sat trying to get my head around what I might say to you about the &#8220;war abroad&#8221; &#8211; to you, who know the facts, the statistics, the costs of war, especially of the war in Iraq. Dorothy Soelle&#8217;s brief poem, &#8220;Peace: He&#8217;s leaning against a tree,&#8221; finally helped me focus. Its quiet truth bellows into a world engulfed in multiple wars &#8211; and positions in the crosshairs of war&#8217;s insanely destructive violence the One we follow who raised his arms on the Cross to overcome all evil. It is not finished. It is clearly not finished.  He&#8217;s leaning against a tree The wood has been sold &#8212; the rainforests depleted, no holds have been barred in pursuit of global markets The land leased &#8212; the oil and coal and gold and diamonds and coltan beneath it exploited The water poisoned &#8212; or stolen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Salvador: The Great Migration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRISPAZ Interview with Dean Brackley, SJ Reprinted from SALVANET, Winter 2007 Salvanet (SN): Dean, you recently returned from a speaking tour on Immigration in the States. Can you enlighten us on the depth and importance of this topic? Dean Brackley (DB): The situation here in El Salvador is unbelievably bad. The majority is migrating out of desperation. They leave to feed t h e i r families or as young people in search of work or educational opportunities, and finally, some people leave because of extortion. Here we have the desperation character; people are leaving Central America at a great cost to themselves and their families. SN: How many people are leaving? DB: The US ambassador at this time last year in an interview with a paper in Syracuse New York said that according to the US embassy 740 people were leaving a day. Obviously not all of those people are making it to the US each day, because some people were deported two days later or two weeks later from Mexico or the US and are trying their 3rd or 4th time. The US border patrol two years ago said it was intercepting on the southern border an average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toward a Just and Peaceful Solution in Iraq: A Policy Paper on the War and Occupation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toward a Just and Peaceful Solution in Iraq: A Policy Paper on the War and Occupation by Pax Christi USA, March 2008 The fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, March 19th, falls in Holy Week this year, a poignant reminder of the prolonged Holy Week suffering in Iraq. Five years after the invasion, the spiral of violence unleashed by the war continues to cause tremendous suffering on all sides with no end in sight. Outside the United States, the invasion is largely viewed as illegal, based on faulty intelligence and deliberate deception (that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction), and in violation of the United Nations Charter. U.S. unilateralism and the use of torture, as well as the ongoing militarization and occupation of Iraq, continue to damage the U.S. reputation abroad, as well as divide our people at home. Inside Iraq, an August 2007 poll (commissioned by the BBC, ABC News, and Japan&#8217;s NHK) showed that more than 6 in 10 Iraqis viewed the U.S.-led invasion of their country as wrong, up from 52 percent in late 2006. Between 67 and 70 percent believed the surge had hampered conditions for political dialogue and reconstruction, and despite the uncertainties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Continuing Presence of Archbishop Romero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rodolfo Cardenal SJ UCA, San Salvador, 2008 The importance of Monseñor Romero in today&#8217;s El Salvador is indisputable. The almost three decades since his martyrdom have not in any way diminished his image, but rather underlined his living presence. Archbishop Romero is a key reference point of national and ecclesial life, even for those who reject him, since they cannot but recognise his importance for the country and the world. In a society disfigured by violence, massive emigration, inequality and poverty, and the social and political irresponsibility of its leaders, Oscar Romero is still a hugely significant figure. Although the historic situation is not what it was thirty years ago, when he began his ministry as archbishop, his message has not lost its relevance. At that time, the country was entering a time of bloody and cruel civil war. Now social violence leaves more wounded and dead than the incipient conflict did then. Today it is a generalized violence, and the protagonists are not only the gangs of youths organized for crime and drug trafficking, but also regional and international criminal organisations, the drug traffickers and the people traffickers, and ordinary men and women from so-called ‘civil society&#8217; who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guatemala: Remembering Bishop Gerardi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  WORDS OF BISHOP JUAN GERARDI AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE REMHI REPORT (Metropolitan Cathedral of Guatemala City, April 24, 1998) The REMHI project (Catholic Church&#8217;s &#8220;Recovery of the Historic Memory&#8221; Project) has been an effort within the Human Rights Ministry which is part of the Social Ministry of the Church.  It is a mission of service to people and to society. When confronted with political or economic issues, many people react by saying &#8220;Why does the Church get involved in this?&#8221;  They would like us to dedicate ourselves strictly to spiritual ministries.  But the Church has a mission to accomplish in terms of bringing order to society, and that includes ethical, moral and evangelical values. What do the commandments tell us?  They say, &#8220;You shall love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;  And it is precisely to that neighbor that the Church has to direct its mission.   Speaking to lay people, Pope John Paul II said, &#8220;An essential task of the Church is to rediscover the dignity of the human person.&#8221;  This was also the evangelizing labor of Jesus.  The Lord put the dignity of human beings at the center of the Gospel. Within the pastoral work of the Church, [...]]]></description>
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