Prayers for Peacemakers, March 4, 2015
Pray for the campesin@s (farmers) in Micoahumado, Las Pavas, El Guayabo and other communities that are resisting forced displacement. Pray that they continue working their lands and growing with love the food that we enjoy in our tables.
Photo: Fundación Chasquis – Contact: Regula Gattiker – Juan Manuel Peña – Ricardo Torres.
“A campesin@ without land is like a fish without water.”
For decades, international media has painted the Palestinian struggle in terms of terrorism, while Israeli occupation, ethnic cleansing, and human rights violations against Palestinians are attributed to self-defence.
How quickly corporations and governments move to destroy Indigenous sacred spaces, while in contrast, Christian sites are respected and preserved.
Musbah chooses to maintain his shop by the checkpoint and offer his space as a refuge to children when the Israeli occupation soldiers attack, even when it puts him and his family in danger.
