Catholic World News
CWNews DAILY NEWS BRIEF for FEBRUARY 4, 2003
© Copyright 2003 Domus Enterprises

India's Bishops Oppose War on Iraq

NEW DELHI, Feb 04, 03 (CWNews.com) -- The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) has cautioned that a military strike against Iraq "will result in a colossal human tragedy."

Expressing "serious concern about the war clouds that hover over West Asia," the CBCI statement argued that 'armed conflict' against Iraq would be "nothing less than a death blow," since Iraq has already been "ravished with malnutrition, poverty, and economic sanction' due to the decade-old economic embargo.

Acknowledging that the UN-approved arms inspection against Iraq has not yielded "satisfactory progress," the Indian bishops also said that "terrorism, under any circumstances, cannot be accepted as it does not uphold the basic human right to live a free and fearless life."

However, the CBCI insisted that the remedy to terrorism "should not be worse than the malady itself." The bishops pleaded that "every effort must be made by the international community to avert such a man-made tragedy" as a full-scale war. 

CWNews.com Home