Iraq

CPT INTERNATIONAL: Train with CPT – Join CPT’s Peacemaker Corps

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CPTnet
March 2, 2017
CPT INTERNATIONAL: Train with CPT – Join CPT’s Peacemaker Corps

Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) is currently accepting applications for its Peacemaker Corps. Join us in building partnerships to transform violence and oppression!

Prayers for Peacemakers 14 December 2019

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Pray for the safety of the fourteen families that live in Chame Rebatke, an Assyrian Christian village, that Turkish warplanes bombed twice in two months. Pray and advocate for the end of the cross-border bombardments that target farming and pastoral communities in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Second Sunday in Advent: The Light of Lasting Peace

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Aklima speaks to a CPTer about the impacts of cross-border bombings on her village. Peace is a hard thing to write about. I think it is currently experienced in fleeting, single-frame moments, in Iraqi Kurdistan just as in most of the the world. I see these single frames of peace in our partners’ stories.

Prayers for Peacemakers, 29 August 2018

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Pray for Kak Ibrahim and other farmers in the village of Barbazin, whose farmland has been burned by Iranian shelling. Pray for their safety and for strength as they continue to cultivate and harvest what crops they can salvage.

IRAQI KURDISTAN: "I lost my sister. . .and I want everyone to know."

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On 30 June Dunya Rasheed, a high school student from Halania, Iraqi Kurdistan went to harvest nuts with her family. The village lands of Halania are in close proximity to a Turkish base constructed within the international borders of Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish soldiers shot a rocket directly into a group of thirty villagers harvesting crops on their own lands. This attack ended Dunya’s life.

IRAQI KURDISTAN URGENT ACTION: Write email to the Turkish Embassy asking for safe evacuation of 450 civilians in Pishdar District

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CPTnet
20 July 2018
Iraqi Kurdistan Urgent Action: Write email to the Turkish Embassy asking for safe evacuation of 450 civilians in Pishdar District

Prayers for Peacemakers 18 July 2018 Iraqi Kurdistan

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Prayers for Peacemakers 18 July 2018 Iraqi Kurdistan

Prayers for Peacemakers 23 May 2018 Lesvos

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Prayers for Peacemakers 23 May 2018 Lesvos

Pray for the LGBTIQ+ refugee community on Lesvos who are both living with and who have fled persecution, discrimination, and violence because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Prayers for Peacemakers 2 May 2018 Iraqi Kurdistan

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Prayers for Peacemakers 2 May 2018 Iraqi Kurdistan

IRAQI KURDISTAN: They are killing us because we are Kurds.

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CPTnet
1 May 2018
IRAQI KURDISTAN: They are killing us because we are Kurds.

by the CPT Iraqi Kurdistan team

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