A coalition of religious leaders and veterans has called for a reconsideration of conscientious objection to war, saying that military members should have the right to object to the wars in Iraq and ...

On January 16, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled in a landmark decision that the extradition of a conscientious objector to the war in Ukraine is permissible. The question was whether the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This past Fourth of July, my grandfather, 94 years old, finally had his high-school graduation. Drafted in the winter of 1945 ...

The Swiss will vote Sunday on imposing stricter rules for claiming conscientious objection to military service, as the war in ...

Kim Davis, a Rowan County, Ky., clerk, celebrates her release Sept. 8 from the Carter County Detention center in Grayson, Ky. The Vatican Sept. 30 did not deny reports that while in Washington, Pope ...

J.E. McNeil remembers well the call she received about a year and a half ago from a doctor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He was of the Muslim faith and had contacted McNeil, a lawyer and head of ...

MADRID, Spain — A body representing Spain’s medical colleges said on Monday that a government minister’s threat to conscientious objection on abortion is “unacceptable, illegal, and unjust.” The ...

Q. If a service member converts to Islam, can he or she refuse to be deployed to places where he or she would fight fellow Muslims? A. Muslim service members, or others whose religious training or ...

Swiss voters have backed imposing stricter rules for claiming conscientious objection to military service. The Swiss voted ...

Kim Davis has touched a nerve with conservative Christians. Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz have rushed to stand alongside her. And Times readers are having none of it.

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: October 12th, 1945, 69 years ago today . . . the day of an awards ceremony like no other. President Harry Truman personally handed out the medals to ...

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