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 ...

Kim Davis has touched a nerve with conservative Christians. Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz have rushed to stand alongside her. And Times readers are having none of it.

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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The concept of conscientious objection dates back centuries and is rooted in the principle that individuals should not be forced to act against their deeply held moral or religious ...

Moral injury can occur when someone must act against their values -- but also when they cannot act in line with their values. Fly View Productions/E+ via Getty Images When we think about harm, we ...

What would you do if you were drafted to fight in a war? As a conscientious objector opposed to all wars, Wayne R. Ferren Jr. had to answer that question during the Vietnam War. Chapter 5: ...

A court in Sivas has sentenced conscientious objector Çınar Koçgiri Doğan to five months in prison for refusing compulsory military service, making him the first conscientious objector in nearly a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...