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Faithful Security's Organizing Toolkit

"One of the best resources for those who wish to educate and lobby for nuclear disarmament ..."
- Bill Wickersham, "It’s time to end threat of nuclear war," Columbia Tribune

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Faithful Security'seducational and outreach tool kit and a bulletin insert are available for download.

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Resources on North Korean Nuclear Test

Statements from Religious Groups and Denominations
on the North Korean Nuclear Test:

United Methodist Church: “Mission Leader Calls North Korean Test “Deplorable” And Calls for International Nuclear Disarmament”

National Council of Churches: “NCC condemns North Korea nuclear test, urges diplomacy”

Pax Christi: “Pax Christi USA Condemns North Korean Nuclear Test, Calls upon Bush Administration to Enter into Direct Negotiations”

World Council of Churches: “WCC asks for peaceful, lawful and collective response to North Korean nuclear test”

Worship Materials on the North Korean Nuclear Test:

UMC General Board of Discipleship: “A Call to Prayer with the President of the United States and Leaders of the World”

Analysis of the North Korean Nuclear Test:

Friends Committee for National Legislation (Quakers):“North Korean Nuclear Test is Predictable Result of Failed U.S. Diplomatic Strategy”

Sojourners, “God’s Politics” Blog: “The North Korean Bomb is a Bush Administration Failure”

Educational Materials Available from Other Organizations

"Faith Seeking Peace" curriculum, which includes a session on “Weapons and the World” by Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), published March 2006.

For a packet of educational materials on disarmament produced specifically for religious communities, visit the Churches' Center for Public Theology's Nuclear Reduction/ Disarmament Initiative.

For more information about nuclear weapons and disarmament, visit the following websites:

Comprehensive educational materials: www.nuclearfiles.org

Current Legislation: www.fcnl.org/nuclear/

Religious Statements on Nuclear Weapons:
www.zero-nukes.org


Statements

Please sign on the following statement, and feel free to reproduce all or part of it to share with others.

"We Affirm Our Belief in the One God"
A Statement Regarding Muslim-Christian Perspective on the Nuclear Weapons Danger

This statement is being circulated by our partner group, the Churches' Center for Public Theology's Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative. As of July 2006, nearly 2000 signers have endorsed the statement. Join them.


Op-eds

"A World Free of Nuclear Weapons" by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn, The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007.

"The Nuclear Threat is Growing. What Should American Jews do?" Rabbi Or N. Rose, Jewish Telagraphic Agency, June 5, 2006.


Articles

"Churches need to be "vigilant" about nuclear proliferation WCC governing body says" World Council of Churches, 3/1/07.

"Denuking Iran: Washington calls the Kettle Black," David Cortright, Sojourners, April 2006.

"U.S. Plans to Modernize Nuclear Arsenal," Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer, 03/04/06.

"Nukes Deplored at Christian Gathering," Brian Murphy, Associated Press, 02/15/06.

"End to Nuclear Weapons Urged: Robert McNamara Wants Churches to Act, " Peter Smith, The Courier-Journal, 11/12/05.

"Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, Raise Minimum Wage," Peter Smith, The Courier-Journal, 10/29/05.

"Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Nuclear Realism," David Cortright. Sojomail, 8/9/05.

"As U.S. Enlarges Nuclear Arsenal, Vatican Rethinks
Its Stance on Deterrence,"
Dave Robinson, National Catholic Reporter, 7/29/05.

 

Complex 2030

The Bush administration's plan to develop new nuclear warheads must be stopped. Under the "Complex 2030" plan, up to 125 new plutonium pits would be produced every year, posing a threat to public health and creation.

With a price tag for renovation of the nuclear weapons complex upwards of $150 billion, it is immoral to spend our resources on unnecessary weapons when there are so many other human needs left unmet. Learn more today.

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"When you drop
bombs on
your enemy, you
drop those same
bombs
on yourself,
your own country."


— Thich Nhat Hahn,
Buddhist Monk

 


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-Deuteronomy 30:19

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