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 ...

We were sad to learn today of the death of Joshua Casteel, a veteran of the Iraq War who sought early discharge as a conscientious objector. Pax Christi USA has posted reflections on Josh, which you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from Seoul — It was a prison term, Lee Min-young says, that he had been anticipating his whole life, and on Friday it was finally confirmed: The 25-year-old was sent to spend 18 months ...

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 ...

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 ...