A group of 14.A group of 14 religious leaders has called for a comprehensive treaty curtailing the global arms trade. In an October 4 letter to the London Times, signers such as the Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (dä`lī lä`mə) [Tibetan,=oceanic teacher], title of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 1935–, , retired Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu Noun 1. Desmond Tutu - South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931) Tutu , and Catholic ethicist eth·i·cist also e·thi·cian n. A specialist in ethics. Noun 1. ethicist - a philosopher who specializes in ethics ethician philosopher - a specialist in philosophy Father Robert Drinan Father Robert Frederick Drinan, S.J. (November 15 1920 – January 28 2007) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. of Georgetown University lamented the "global horror story" that results in 1,000 deaths a day from the world's nearly 640 million firearms. The Vatican also issued a statement expressing support for such a treaty, which was under discussion at the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, according to Zenit. |
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