MANY years ago (in the early nineties) I stood almost alone in England as an advocate of general military service. I advocated it because I knew that regular food and athletic life (the most vital ...

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 ...

The left has always had great admiration for the conscientious objector. I know something about that because I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s when the Vietnam War was being fought. Some ...

Earl and Pat Martin had come from halfway around the world to help both America’s allies and its enemies in Vietnam. And they had to make a decision in 1975 when the North Vietnamese forces made their ...

When Lee Haw-sook’s son was growing up, she knew there was a risk he’d end up in prison. Lee is one of around 100,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses in South Korea. While the Christian denomination are a tiny ...

Erkan Ersoz and Ersan Ugur Gor, two conscientious objectors from Turkeys War Resisters Association, urge for the acquittal of arrested objector Mehmet Tarhan, whose request for release was denied ...

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 ...

Scotland’s leading medical bodies have issued a rare joint warning over proposed changes to assisted dying legislation, ...

Do we think that conscientious objectors are a problem for the world (or our country), and not a possible solution to the world’s problems? Let’s look at it. Imagine a world without conscientious ...

Mr. Moore Gerety is a freelance reporter and audio producer. It was a book of Buddhist parables that put Michael Rasmussen over the edge. In March 2017, Mr. Rasmussen was living near a naval base in ...