Leeds Christians Against War on Iraq

What in God’s Name … !

A Christian action of witness and prayer based on the Beatitudes of Jesus, saying no to the principalities and powers of imperialism.

Thursday 31 October 2002

12.30 — 1.30pm

Leeds Art Gallery Steps

Headrow

Leeds City Centre

A part of the Stop The War Coalition’s day of action against war on Iraq.

Christians throughout Leeds were invited to join us for the above action and at 5pm outside Yorkshire Television for the Coalition’s main demonstration of the day.

‘Let us not love in word, but in deed and in truth.’
1 John 3:18

‘Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.’
Oscar Romero

A Litany of Resistance
by Jim Loney (CPT Reservist), Toronto, Ontario

For the full text of the litany used in the Christian action of witness and prayer, click here.

Following a higher authority

… and your sons and daughters shall prophesy,

and your young men shall see visions,

and your old men shall dream dreams.

Acts 2.17

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