Inter-Faith Prayers Call for Immediate End to US Invasion of Iraq

In line with the March 20 Global Day of Action, Muslims, Catholics and Protestants from the various congregations and denominations will gather at the Liwasang Bonifacio today to join His Excellency Vice Pres. Teofisto Guingona and various anti-war groups to call for peace in Iraq, Palestine, Haiti, Philippines and all countries presently suffering from U.S. war crimes and intervention.

The inter-faith rally is a dramatic call to all governments who support the war to yield to the worldwide clamor for peace and to pull out their troops in Iraq. It is also an outpouring of sentiments against the declaration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that the Philippine government will continue its backing to the so-called “coalition of the willing” and that she will not order the withdrawal of the Filipino contingent in Iraq.

PILGRIMS FOR PEACE, an inter-faith and multi-sectoral network of peace advocates in the Philippines, together with the PHILIPPINE INTERNATIONAL FORUM, PEOPLE’S FORUM ON PEACE FOR LIFE, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN THE PHILIPPINES, PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE and other broad church groups, expect to gather hundreds of peace-loving Filipinos as well as foreigners currently staying in the Philippines to join the gathering in Liwasang Bonifacio and march to U.S. Embassy later in the afternoon.

In a statement, PILGRIMS FOR PEACE asserts, “It is time for the US government to heed the worldwide clamor for peace and pull-out of all US war troops. Much blood has been spilt already in the name of the US’ “war on terror”, and the continuing occupation of Iraq will further spell doom on the Iraqi people. The so-called threat of “weapons of mass destruction” which the US arrogantly used to push its war of aggression is now universally panned.”  The statement also stressed that the US occupation of Iraq was unjustifiable in the beginning and is still unjustifiable now.

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