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German Protestant leader opposes Afghanistan war: "This war cannot be justified"

Germany’s senior Protestant bishop, Margot Kässmann, who has criticized her nation’s military strategy in Afghanistan since giving a New Year sermon in which she said that weapons were “clearly not creating peace” there, has recently drawn support from a Catholic archbishop.

Reinhard Marx, the Catholic archbishop of Munich and Freising, was reported by a Bavarian broadcaster as saying that Kässmann had started an important debate about the war in Afghanistan.