Torture is the worst agony that one human being can inflict on another.
Whether physical or psychological, torture is destructive of the human spirit
for both the tortured person and the torturer. As people of faith, we believe
that each human being is made in the image and likeness of God. When
someone tortures another child of God, they torture Christ.

The Conference Ministers of the New England Region (Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) in
a May, 2008, Pastoral Letter call on the “clergy and members of United
Church of Christ congregations in our six New England Conferences, to
join with us in this witness to abolish US-sponsored torture.”


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