PRAYERS FOR PEACEMAKERS, Wed., Mar. 31, 2010
Pray for the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario, Canada. For forty years they have been poisoned by mercury from a pulp mill upstream. A recent study shows that the health effects are substantially worse than the government acknowledges.
Doug Pritchard
Christian Peacemaker Teams
Toronto, Canada
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