News Releases, Updates and Statements on Iraq

• 04/24/08 CWS getting critical medical supplies to hospitals in Iraq's most violent cities
• 03/18/08 Upcoming Iraq Action Days promote peace and relief for Iraq
• 12/19/07 Emergency Appeal Update: Assistance to war affected Iraqis
• 08/20/07 CWS statement on the resettlement of displaced Iraqis
• 08/03/07 CWS to provide assistance to Iraqis in crisis
• 07/02/07 Iraqis fleeing the violence, seeking safety beyond Iraq's borders
• 3/14/06 Interfaith group gathers at the Capitol to pray for Americans, Iraqis and others killed
• 3/13/06 Devotional Reflection on Iraq, from an Interfaith Prayer Vigil at the U.S. Capitol, March 13 by John McCullough
• 3/12/06 National Coordination Committee in Iraq Statement for reconciliation, national unity and an end to the violence
• 10/04/05 All Our Children Campaign Final Report
• 9/19/05 More Than 200,000 Iraqi Children Benefit From "All Our Children" Consortium

• 12/10/03 Church World Service Resolution on Iraq
• Message from CWS Executive Director Rev. John L. McCullough on the War in Iraq
• 3/19/03 CWS Board of Directors on War in Iraq
• CWS Statement on Preemptive Military Action Against Iraq
• 10/02 CWS on the Gospel Call to Peacemaking

A team of prominent research experts and humanitarians, including CWS Exec. Director John McCullough, traveled to Baghdad between January 19-31, 2003. They were part of an emergency mission led by the New York-based Center for Economic and Social Rights [CESR] to assess the humanitarian and human rights consequences of war on Iraq. Read about the mission in the articles below:

• 1/31/03 Report: Iraqi health care system grossly inadequate to deal with human health consequences of war
• 1/31/03 Iraqi civilians woefully unprepared for war
• 1/23/03 CWS Exec Director John McCullough part of team to investigate human rights consequences of war in Iraq