http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/9442

Ekklesia online reports this story:

"In spite of a global trend towards better recognition of the right to conscientious objection (which is marked with an international Day on 15 May 2009),the first results of a study being conducted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) shows many countries subject those who exercise that right and those who refuse military service, to discrimination, persecutution, repeated
punishment or imprisonment."
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