PRAYERS
FOR PEACEMAKERS, May 16, 2012
Pray
for Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike to protest detention without charges
or trials, and other punishments. CPT members joined the fast May 15, the anniversary
of the 1948 expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes.
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