"Where is Palestine?" I asked my mother.

"You don’t know?!" she replied incredulously. "Palestine isn’t a real place. It doesn’t exist."

I don't have to comfort a crying baby awakened by an explosion.
I don't have to wake up for school the next day.
I don't have to feel this fear every night. 

Prayers for Peacemakers, February 6, 2013

Pray that heirs of the Two Row Wampum Covenant of 1613, between North American natives and settlers, may be honored by care for the earth and mutual respect among nations in the Hudson River area and throughout North America.

Four hundred years after a landmark 
covenant between the Haudenosaunee
and European settlers, the earth and
many nations are hoping for a renewal
of commitments to honor it.

Pray for six kidnap victims, their loved ones and their ELN guerrilla captors in Colombia.  Pray that the unarmed, the poor, women, farmers, people committed to social and environmental health, may shape a just and peaceful future, as the power of greed and guns wanes.

In Masafer Yatta, Palestine, Israeli
soldiers began military exercises
in the area they have called "Firing
Zone 918".

A dozen peacemakers, many dressed in orange jumpsuits, papered the federal building with images of some of the eighty-six men whom the U.S. government has cleared for release but who remain in detention at Guantánamo.

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence will
end her sacred fast, which began 11
December 2012, on Thursday morning,
24 January. 

Pray with Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence, on hunger strike since December 11, that she and other indigenous leaders be granted a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Governor General David Johnston to address treaty rights being threatened by new Canadian laws.

CPT Colombia calls on government authorities to work nonviolently for the release of all those who were kidnapped January 18.