Rally to Stress Sanctity of Life
About 1,500 Christians from across the country are expected to take part in an unusual Pentecost celebration in the nation’s capital this weekend in resistance to what they consider to be attacks on life.
The three-day conference on Christian nonviolence and civil disobedience starts today at the Catholic University of America.
They are protesting abortion, the nuclear arms buildup, policies depriving the poor, U.S. military involvement in Central America, capital punishment and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, among other things.
“The sanctity of human life seems to be under attack from every side,” the editors of Sojourners, a evangelical, social-activist magazine, said in announcing the gathering, involving both Protestants and Roman Catholics.
Pentecost Sunday commemorates the birth of the church, when the Holy Spirit empowered the apostles in Jerusalem.
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