County Human Rights Commission to Recognize Rev. Antal April 19
The Orange County Human Rights Commission will be recognizing Rev. Chris J. Antal for his humanitarian deeds and actions at its 22nd annual awards dinner Wednesday, April 19 at Kuhl’s Highland House, 512 Highland Ave., in Middletown.
Rev. Antal, Dr. Ron Israelski, Abdullah Rahaman, Lana Williams-Scott and Christopher D. Watkins, Esq. are this year’s award recipients from the commission.
According to the Rev. Antal “I intend to receive the award on behalf of the UUCRT, and will have the opportunity to speak to the gathering about all the good work the UUCRT is doing and supporting.”
A portion of the cost of $65 per person goes toward a human rights scholarship for a graduating 2017 Orange County high school graduate. Reservations are required by April 7. RSVP to Inaudy Esposito iesposito@orangecountygov.com or by mail to Orange County Human Rights Commission, 18 Seward Ave., Middletown, NY10940. Telephone: 845-615-3680.
There will be a social hour at 5 p.m., followed by dinner and program at 6 p.m.
Our congregation was featured on the Public Radio International Program The World yesterday May 19 in a broadcast that reached over 300 stations across North America. Click here to listen to the program host Marco Werman interview our minister and read the story by … read more.
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This article was published in the Army Times, May 16, 2016.
In 2012, a Veterans Day sermon posted online by then-Chaplain (1st Lt.) Chris Antal that said the U.S. had “condoned extrajudicial assassinations,” among other controversial … read more.
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This article was published in the New York Daily News, May 14, 2016
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US Army Chaplain Resigns in Protest Over Drones, ‘Policy of Unaccountable Killing’
This article was published in Common Dreams, May 13, 2016.
“I resign because I refuse to support U.S. policy of preventive war, permanent military supremacy and global power projection. ”
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This article was published in Military.com, May 12, 2016.
Christopher Antal (Photo: Courtesy Christopher Antal)
May 12, 2016 | by Bryant Jordan
A Unitarian Universalist Church minister and U.S. Army chaplain who served in Afghanistan has submitted … read more.
The Story of Tariq, and Afghan Helper
Letter to the Editor by Rev. Chris Antal, published in the New York Times, May 9, 2016.
To the Editor:
Re “Don’t Abandon America’s Afghan Helpers” (editorial, April 29):
I didn’t abandon Tariq, an interpreter and one of America’s Afghan … read more.
Talk published on YouTube, Apr 29, 2016
Universalist Unitarian Minister and Reserve Army Chaplain Chris Antal tells about being kicked out of Afghanistan by the Army after giving a sermon critical of U.S. military involvement there, including drone warfare.
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My View: In drone warfare we ought not trust
By Rev. Chris J. Antal
Editorial published in the Times Herald Record, February 12, 2015
Less than a month after I deployed to Afghanistan, on Oct. 24, 2012, a grandmother who lived over the hill from our … read more.
