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Notices

From the July 1969 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Many countries conscript citizens for a period of national service. The draft laws of a number of these countries recognize that the individual's conscience and religious convictions play a determining part in his response to this obligation. Accordingly, these laws provide several ways by which the citizen can fulfill his service. The three most prevalent are:

(a) he can be ordered to armed combatant training and duty in the armed forces; or

(b) he can be ordered to non combatant training and duty in the armed forces, but is exempted from bearing arms; or

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