"Christians safer under Saddam": Vatican Official

clipped from www.cwnews.com Iraqi Christians safer under Saddam, Vatican official says American policy has produced chaos in Iraq, and Christians are in greater danger than they were under Saddam Hussein, according to the Vatican's former "foreign minister." Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who served from 1990 to 2003 as the Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States-- the top foreign-policy official for the Holy See-- told 30 Giorni magazine that he had been right to speak out against American war plans in 2003. Today, he said, "the facts speak for themselves. The net result of the conflict in Iraq, the French-born prelate said, has been a breakdown in public order, leading to a civil war between Muslim factions with Christians caught in the middle. The cardinal's comments appear in the August issue of the Italian monthly. In June of this year he was appointed to become secretary of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue; he will formally assume this new post in September.

George W. Bush = America's Supreme failure.

US Presbyterian Church Boycott 2004

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Recent economic boycotts In July 2004, the General Synod of the Presbyterian Church (USA) (PCUSA) voted to "initiate a process of phased selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel." On June 19, 2006, the Committee on Peacemaking and International Issues of the PCUSA adopted a compromise resolution that calls for the Church to invest only in "peaceful pursuits" in Israel and Palestine. In July, 2005, 171 Palestinian non-governmental organizations called "for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights." In May 2006, the Ontario section of the Canadian Union of Public Employees approved a resolution to "support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel until that state recognizes the Palestinian right to self-determination" and to protest the Israeli West Bank barrier.