by Baptist Times Staff | May 16, 2013 | News
Human rights campaigners in Wales are urging Foreign Secretary William Hague to make a fresh public plea for the return of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident detained in Guantanamo Bay. One of more than 100 detainees on hunger strike at the U.S. base, Aamer has...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | May 30, 2011 | Opinion
Buddhists all over the world celebrated Vesak last week. It is the commemoration of both the birth and the attainment of Enlightenment (nirvana) by Gautama, the Buddha. In Sri Lanka, a society that prides itself on being the missionary center of Theravada Buddhism,...
by Bob Allen | Mar 14, 2007 | News
The National Association of Evangelicals has endorsed an anti-torture statement denouncing “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” to those detained in the U.S.-led “war on terror.” “When torture is employed by a state, that act...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 2, 2007 | Opinion
Thinking about the moral ambiguities associated with the activities at Guantanamo, we usually concentrate on how prisoners are treated or the legal procedures employed for processing prisoners. More often than not, our conversations dwell on what is known as...
by James L. Evans | Jun 17, 2005 | Opinion
The Pentagon confirmed recently that for the past two and half years, military personnel assigned to the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have on occasion defaced copies of the Quran—the Muslim holy book. The Pentagon identified more than a half-dozen cases in...
