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Religious leaders call Bush's Iraq War policies 'morally bankrupt'
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BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Baltimore Christian leaders used the backdrop of Ash Wednesday and props of a dead soldier's combat boots as they called President George W. Bush's Iraq War policies immoral and urged Marylanders to take part in an organized anti-war rally in Washington. The 13 religious leaders from varying Christian faiths -- including Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden of Baltimore -- chose the first day of Lent Feb. 21 to launch their collective anti-war platform, because it's a penitential season. "The time has come to confess our mistakes and wrongdoing and withdraw our troops" from Iraq, said the Rev. Peter K. Nord, head of the Presbytery of Baltimore, part of the national Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). "The Jesus we follow prays for peace and so do we," Rev. Nord said at the news conference at City Temple Baptist Church in the Bolton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. "I'm troubled that our commander in chief neither shares this prayer nor listens to his people."
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