Prayers

Prayers for Peacemakers, August 27 2014

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August 27, 2014

Prayers for Peacemakers, August 27 2014

Pray for the stipended CPTers attending their biennial retreat this week in Quito, Ecuador, where they are learning about trauma and self care. Pray also for the small teams of reservists and other CPTers who are staffing projects in Iraqi Kurdistan and Colombia so that stipended CPTers can attend retreat and for the work of CPT partners in Aboriginal communities, Colombia, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Palestine who continue the nonviolent struggles for justice and peace in their homelands.

CPTers straddling the yellow line that marks (more or less) the division of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
Quito, Ecuador

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