The Nation - News from May 29, 1985
About 200 Christian activists, praying and protesting against “violence, militarism and injustice,” were arrested in nonviolent demonstrations outside the White House, the Soviet Embassy and other major buildings in the nation’s capital. They were among more than 1,000 demonstrators protesting a range of issues, including nuclear policy, war in Central America and the death penalty, tying them together as anti-Christian “assaults on the sanctity of human life.”
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