PRAYERS FOR PEACEMAKERS, Aug. 03, 2011
Pray for an end to the recent invasion
of north-eastern Iraq by 15,000 Iranian troops and 200 Turkish officers,
supposedly in pursuit of armed Iranian Kurdish resistance fighters. Iraqi Kurds
have been killed and hundreds displaced.
Doug Pritchard
Christian Peacemaker Teams
Chicago, USA
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