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NEW CANON FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE SPEAKS AT WORLD BANK Addressing the underlying causes of terrorism will require radically altering the plight of the world’s poor and disenfranchised. That is the message the Rev. Canon John L. Peterson of Washington National Cathedral delivered during a convocation at the World Bank The May 31 event marked the publication of After Terror, a new book containing reflections by prominent thinkers on one of the key issues of our time. Recently installed as Canon for Global Justice and Reconciliation, Canon Peterson gave an Episcopal/Anglican Communion response to the new book. Echoing the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan D. Williams, Canon Peterson said, “God’s language does not divide ‘us’ and ‘them,’ instead it is a language that lifts up the most vulnerable of our world—the victims of intolerance, bigotry and hatred.” Click here to read the full text of Canon Peterson’s speech.
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