Call for prayers as Canada joins Iraq mission
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40200
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 December
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 December
- Volume
- 140
- Issue
- 10
- Page
- 3
- Notes
- "In October [2014], as more Canadian troops prepared for deployment to Iraq to join the combat mission against the militant Sunni group known as the Islamic State (ISIS), Archbishop Fred Hiltz urged Anglicans to pray for the people of Syria and Iraq and for the members of the Canadian Armed Forces and their families". "The statement followed a vote in Parliament on Oct. 7 [2014] to join a U.S.-led coalition in airstrikes against ISIS. The vote, which passed 157 to 134, was not uncontroversial". "The question of what to do in response to the violence of ISIS is a troubling one for many Canadians". Archbishop Hiltz "emphasized a pastoral response, saying 'While I am deeply aware of the significant debate among people of faith with respect to 'just war', it is not my intent at this moment to draw us into that but rather to call us to prayer'."
- Subjects
- Iraq - Politics and government - 2003-
- Iraq - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Canada - Armed Forces - Iraq
- Canada - Armed Forces - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Islamic State (IS)
- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
- Just war doctrine - Anglican Church of Canada
- Violence - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Terrorism - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Hiltz, Fred (Frederick James), 1953-