{"id":7487,"date":"2010-11-12T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=7487"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:23:04","slug":"religious-leaders-urge-attention-to-moral-injuries-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2010\/11\/12\/religious-leaders-urge-attention-to-moral-injuries-of-war\/7487\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Leaders Urge Attention to Moral Injuries of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/rss\/media\/video\/episode.1411.moral.conscience.m4v  --><br \/>\nTo mark Veterans Day, the <a href=\"http:\/\/conscienceinwar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Commission on Conscience in War<\/a>, a coalition of more than 60 religious, academic, advocacy, and veterans groups, released a report on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/november-6-2009\/healing-the-wounds-of-war\/4878\/\">moral injuries<\/a> suffered by service members.The report urged religious leaders to do a better job of educating communities about the criteria governing the moral conduct of war and the needs of veterans and their families. It also called for revisions to current US military regulations to allow service members the right of conscientious objection to a particular war as well as to all wars. Watch Rev. Herman Keizer Jr., a Vietnam veteran, former army chaplain, and Truth Commission co-sponsor; Jake Diliberto, Iraq and Afghanistan veteran and co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan<\/a>; and Rev. Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, co-chair of the Truth Commission planning committee.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwnet%2Freligionandethics%2Fblogs%2Fone-nation-religion-politics-2008%2Freligious-leaders-urge-attention-to-moral-injuries-of-war%2F7487%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;width:450px;height:80px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What war veterans need, says Rev. Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock of the Truth Commission on Conscience in War, &#8220;is for people to let them tell their stories and listen, and most congregations don\u2019t really have a clue how to do that.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2010\/11\/12\/religious-leaders-urge-attention-to-moral-injuries-of-war\/7487\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":17193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1864,5422,5805,6556,8981,714,1857,8983,6037,292,6164,7926,8986,6375,8984,8982,8980,6453,7043,991],"class_list":["post-7487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afghanistan","tag-churches","tag-congregations","tag-conscience","tag-conscientious-objectors","tag-healing","tag-iraq","tag-jake-diliberto","tag-just-war","tag-military","tag-moral","tag-moral-wound","tag-pacifist","tag-religious","tag-rev-dr-rita-nakashima-brock","tag-rev-herman-keizer-jr","tag-truth-commission-on-conscience-in-war","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-day","tag-war","topics-international"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Religious Leaders Urge Attention to Moral Injuries of War | November 12, 2010 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What war veterans need, says Rev. 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