PRAYERS FOR PEACEMAKERS, March 7, 2012
Pray
with CPT for journalists and others beaten and detained by security
forces in Suleimaniya, Iraq. Give thanks that security forces released
them without charging them and remember the young men killed during
demonstrations in the Kurdish spring last year.
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