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FanSided
March 27, 2018
Sister Jean is a sweet old lady and light of goodness in these dark times. But also, it's okay if you conscientiously object. Let us be super clear because I don't want an angry phone call from the Chicago Tribune: Sister Jean seems lovely. She's a 98-year-old nun, after all, which means she's probably aÃâà...
The Conversation UK
March 21, 2018
For most people, the term “conscientious objection” evokes images of Quakers and pacifists registering to avoid military service. Many countries have a long and honourable tradition of accommodating such conscientious objectors. It might not be about bombs and bullets, but healthcare professionals oftenÃâà...
Hudson Valley 360
March 18, 2018
OLD CHATHAM — A one-man show focusing on World War I's conscientious objectors, or those who refused to fight because they believed killing was wrong, was performed at the Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse on Sunday. English actor Michael Mears wrote and starred in the play “This Evil Thing,”Ãâà...
KBS WORLD Radio News
March 8, 2018
Two young conscientious objectors have received a prison term for refusing their mandatory military service based on their religious convictions. The Incheon District Court said on Thursday that it sentenced a 25-year-old man to 18 months in prison for violating the military law. The convict, who is a memberÃâà...
KBS WORLD Radio News
March 8, 2018
Two young conscientious objectors have received a prison term for refusing their mandatory military service based on their religious convictions. The Incheon District Court said on Thursday that it sentenced a 25-year-old man to 18 months in prison for violating the military law. The convict, who is a memberÃâà...
KBS WORLD Radio News
March 8, 2018
A court in the southeastern city of Ulsan has acquitted two conscientious objectors indicted for refusing the mandatory military service. The Ulsan District Court on Thursday found innocent the two male Jehovah's Witnesses, including a 22-year-old, citing Article 19 of the Constitution on the freedom ofÃâà...
Haaretz
March 8, 2018
500 ultra-Orthodox Anti-draft Protesters Block Entrance to Jerusalem. The 'Jerusalem Faction' urged its members to demonstrate against the arrest of Meir Burdiansky when a routine police check of driver's licenses in Ma'aleh Adumim revealed that he was a draft dodger. Aaron Rabinowitz. Mar 08, 2018Ãâà...
Lexology
March 2, 2018
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) recently took two steps to protect the conscience and religious freedom of health care workers. First, it established a new division within its Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) known as the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division.
LancasterOnline
March 2, 2018
Mears' U.S. tour is being sponsored by the Center on Conscience & War, an organization that advocates for conscientious objectors. It's being brought to Akron Mennonite by 1040 for Peace, a local pacifist organization. Mears explains the title of his play, “This Evil Thing,” was a “key phrase used by one ofÃâà...
Adventist Review
March 1, 2018
This, together with a need for official denominational representation for Adventist conscientious objectors who were being drafted for the U.S. Civil War, led first to the formation of local conferences, then to the organization of the General Conference in May 1863. In early June of the same year, Ellen WhiteÃâà...
Otago Daily Times
February 27, 2018
MR J. C. Anderson, of Stirling, expressed a strong objection at the monthly meeting of the Clutha Farmers' Union to the Government's action in placing conscientious objectors on the State Training Farm at Wereroa. About 30 of these persons have been placed on this farm, and Mr Anderson stated that anyÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 26, 2018
With a slim majority of 4 to 3, the Helsinki Court of Appeals voted that the Finnish practice of allowing male Jehovah's Witnesses to avoid conscription was unjust towards other conscientious objectors, national broadcaster Yle reported. This historic decision denounces the decades-old exemption forÃâà...
Haaretz
February 13, 2018
Dozens of Haredi extremists demonstrated Tuesday morning outside the home of Knesset member Uri Maklev (United Torah Judaism) in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem. They were protesting the scheduled session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday concerningÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 11, 2018
They include Haggai Matar, who was also part of the five-strong group of conscientious objectors whose decision to go public with their protest brought the wrath of the Israeli authorities upon them. Matar is today executive director of Israeli-based 972 – Advancement of Citizen Journalism, a non-profitÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 11, 2018
They include Haggai Matar, who was also part of the five-strong group of conscientious objectors whose decision to go public with their protest brought the wrath of the Israeli authorities upon them. Matar is today executive director of Israeli-based 972 – Advancement of Citizen Journalism, a non-profitÃâà...
New York Times
October 17, 2017
On Monday, Oct. 16, 1967, Americans gathered by the thousands in cities and on campuses all over the country for the first “Stop the Draft” week. On the steps of federal buildings, city halls and university buildings, hundreds of young men protested the Vietnam War by turning in their draft cards — aÃâà...
Sheffield Telegraph
December 31, 1999
Wartime conscientious objectors were human guinea pigs in Sheffield research. The building where the human guinea pig experiments took place in ... Conscientious objectors acted as experimental subjects for research purposes. They proved willing experimental subjects, eager to show that althoughÃâà...
Forum 18
December 31, 1999
Two conscientious objectors, both Jehovah's Witnesses, were jailed for one year in January. One had just completed a corrective labour sentence. These are the first jailings of conscientious objectors since 2014. No prisoners of conscience are known to have been freed under the Novruz amnesty.
YLE News
December 31, 1999
A new court ruled on Friday that the Finnish practice of allowing male Jehovah's Witnesses to avoid conscription is discriminatory. The Helsinki Court of Appeal on Friday voted 4-3 for naming the policy discriminatory against other conscientious objectors. The ruling came in a discrimination case brought byÃâà...
Otago Daily Times
December 31, 1999
It should be understood that objectors can, and are in practice, divided into three classes: (1) Religious objectors, who hold to certain sects, whose creeds are against the bearing of arms; (2) conscientious objectors, with real consciences; and (3) defiant objectors. The religious objectors are housed inÃâà...
