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US Christians urge end to torture by military | March 02, 2008

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Faith leaders across America are urging President George W. Bush to stop United States-sponsored torture by signing the Intelligence Authorization Act, which prohibits the use of torture as an interrogation technique

Letters have been sent to Bush from the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and the National Council of Churches USA.

One member of both groups, the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, the church's social action agency, launched a campaign on 20 February 2008 called "United Methodists Do Not Torture," and more than 1,000 people have signed its petition calling for Bush to sign the legislation.

Mr Bush's own religious background is Methodist, though he refused to meet his own denomination's bishops in the run up to the Iraq war, which they publicly opposed.

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