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Facing South: Religious groups join opposition to nuclear “Bombplex”

Posted by Robert Fisher on March 29, 2008

Facing South: Religious groups join opposition to nuclear “Bombplex”

Sixteen national religious organizations filed formal comments [PDF] yesterday opposing the Bush administration’s $150 billion plan to update the nation’s nuclear arsenal, calling the proposed Nuclear Weapons Complex Transformation project wasteful, unneeded and dangerous. The plan, dubbed “Bombplex” by its foes, would streamline the nation’s current atomic arsenal of some 10,000 warheads and build new nuclear weapons at various sites, including several in the South.

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wfn.org | Lutheran Disaster Response Nearly Completes $27.7 Million Expenditure

Posted by Robert Fisher on March 29, 2008

wfn.org | Lutheran Disaster Response Nearly Completes $27.7 Million Expenditure

Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) has nearly completed the expenditure of more than $27.7 million collected to support recovery work along the U.S. Gulf Coast in response to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and other hurricanes from the 2005 season. And in an effort to continue rebuilding the Gulf Coast in the long-term, LDR — a collaborative ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) — is asking for more funds.

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