PRAYERS FOR PEACEMAKERS, Nov. 16, 2011
Pray
for CPT partners in an organization of small-scale gold miners in the Southern
Bolívar region of Colombia. Their communities are facing the encroachment of
large mining companies and violence from armed groups, which profit from gold
mining.
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