An ecclesiastical court is about to consider the case of Ioann Burdin, a defrocked cleric from Kostroma who’s a vocal objector to the Ukraine war. According to the case documents, the hearing ...

In the 1930s, anti-war feeling was widespread. In 1936, some 500,000 students, almost half of the undergraduates in the United States, participated in a strike against war and compulsory ROTC. During ...

Japan is an island nation geographically and culturally: It exists as far from the violence and chaos of war as a country can exist, yet still is a close ally of a warring United States. Since the end ...

THE pen is mightier than the sword, when the sword has drawn the ink; the dollar is sometimes mightier than either, but might does not make right. Convictions of pacifism are daily torn from our ...

THAT question is quite frequently put to me. At first, I was unable to give an answer — any more of an answer than merely, ‘I don’t know, but I’m not.’ As a matter of fact, my reasons were purely ...

What does it mean to have a moral—but not pacifist—foreign policy? It's a question that Germany is struggling with and one that shows some of the country's deepest divides. With war raging in Ukraine, ...

The current and ongoing parliamentary debates about the proposed National Security legislation have exposed the closed and self-indulgent mindset that has perpetuated Japan’s notion of what is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...