The South Korean Supreme Court ruled in favor of conscientious objectors Thursday, ending the country’s decades-long position as the world’s leading jailer of those who refuse to join the ...

But it doesn’t take a lot of courage to be a conscientious objector to something that everyone is objecting to. It is easier to object to racism today than it was to object to slavery in 1850.

Benderman’s chaplain is ashamed of him for seeking conscientious objector status after his 10 years in the Army and having given far more to his country than most Americans.

South Korean activists and conscientious objectors to military service hold yellow banners reading "Conscientious objection is not a crime" during a rally outside the Constitutional Court in Seoul ...

Current conscientious objector rules are contained in military regulations, and not codified in law. In 1991, the Pentagon suspended conscientious objector policy during the Gulf War.

Instead, he learned about, applied for, and obtained Conscientious Objector status. (For more on conscientious objectors, see my interview with J.E. McNeil , head of the Center on Conscience and ...

Almanac: The conscientious objector And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: October 12th, 1945, 69 years ago today . . . the day of an awards ceremony like no other.

Nevertheless, there are about 40 CO's now imprisoned because their claims for I-O status were turned down. Others pay for their conscientious objection in different ways.

Sophocles created a noble type of conscientious objector in Antigone, who refused to obey the law of the State, and illegally gave her brother burial, acting, as she said, in free obedience to ...

Stayer responded to five questions: Q. You have said that York County's conscientious objectors numbered 156 in 1862, sixth highest among Pennsylvania's counties.