Posted in News on May 2nd, 2009 Comments Off
Christians of many faith traditions gathered in Washington, DC on April 29-30 to worship and witness together, restate our convictions and measure our nation’s progress in the difficult tasks ahead. Watch the video clips below of selected speakers and preachers from the April 29 worship service at National City Christian Church in Washington, DC.
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Posted in News on March 1st, 2009 Comments Off
A Lenten Meditation
Contemporary Adaptation of Isaiah 58: 1-12
by Art Laffin
Shout out, don’t hold back.
Lift up your voice like a trumpet.
The US government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.
The Pentagon, CIA, NSA, and corporate, political, and military powers worldwide conspire to control the earth, crush the poor, and persecute the peace and justice [...]
Posted in Events, News on December 13th, 2008 Comments Off
[ December 28, 2008 to December 30, 2008. ] St. Stephen & the
Incarnation Church
16th & Newton Streets NW
Washington D.C.
“Let the children come to me! The horror of the last few years… the lives lost… Who were they? Who are those who are being killed today? Who will be blown up, shot and tortured tomorrow? Which family will lose its child nest?”
Lily Hamourtziadou, The Week [...]
Posted in News on December 10th, 2008 Comments Off
Huong spoke with Pax Christi Metro DC at the Peace Mural in Georgetown.
As a refugee, I belong to the fourth world, the people who have no country. I was born in Vietnam in 1950, at the beginning of the Vietnam War. I became a refugee for the first time at age four, moving from North [...]
Posted in News on December 6th, 2008 Comments Off
By Scott Wright
This past November 21-23, for the nineteenth consecutive year, thousands of people from across the United States and from all walks of life converged on the military base in Ft. Benning, Georgia to call for the closing of “the School of the Americas,” a school that has trained so many assassins and torturers [...]