Ticknott-Hahn and Martin Luther King Jr.

Bishop Mark Andrus, author of Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Ticknott-Hahn and Martin Luther King Jr. "This was really, if you could say, the opposite of suicide," he says about self-immolations by Buddhists. In a joint statement, King and Noth-Hahn recognize the self-immolation of these monks and nuns as they called it martyrs. 'I do not believe that God willed Jesus to die,' writes Bishop Butrus.