Category - christian peacemaker teams

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian youth, assault Christian peacemakers

agency reporter — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:32:44 +0100

Israeli soldiers have assaulted Christian Peacemakers and shot and killed a Palestinian youth in a village north of Hebron.

Former Iraq hostage jailed, assaulted and deported from Israel

agency reporter — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:10:00 +0100

A Christian peace activist who spent 188 days as a hostage in Iraq has been jailed, assaulted and forcibly deported from Israel. Harmeet Sooden, a peace activist from New Zealand, was deported after four days imprisonment.

Making peace matter

Simon Barrow — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:31:49 +0100

Ekklesia has contributed to a forthcoming book on the Christian Peacemaker Teams Iraq hostage crisis and its ramifications.

Beyond rich-poor stereotypes

Paul Mukerji — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:22:25 +0000

In a world where we are used to generalizing, it is inevitable that we will continue to use expressions like “the rich” and “the poor”, says Paul Mukerji. But his time in Colombia led him to question the way this division is formulated.

Christian peace delegates visit West Bank and Israel

agency reporter — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:38:41 +0000

Supporters of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and On Earth Peace, an agency of the US Church of the Brethren, have visited the West Bank and Israel to explore civil society responses to conflict, security and community.

The rhetoric and the reality of terror

Dianne Roe — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:08:37 +0000

When is a terrorist a terrorist, and how is the violence of occupier and occupied to be understood and responded to by those committed to nonviolence? Dianne Roe asks the questions from an assignment in Palestine with CPT.

Colombia peace needs justice, say Christian Peacemakers

staff writers — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:05:39 +0000

Some international peaceworkers in Colombia have decided not to join a march today against guerilla group FARC. Local human rights activists say it "dangerously oversimplifies" the quest for a just peace.

Israeli military fire live ammunition at Palestinian funeral procession

agency reporter — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:52:40 +0000

Israeli authorities have released the bodies of two men shot by settlers to the Palestine Red Crescent Society for burial in their home community of Beit Ummar in the Hebron District - but the mourners were then fired on by the IDF.

British peaceworker joins delegation to war-torn Colombia

staff writers — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:56:13 +0000

Paul Mukerji, a tour manager from Kent in England, is travelling to Colombia as part of a delegation sponsored by Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), which works to 'get in the way' of violence in zones of conflict around the world.

CPT UK walk to mark Afghan war anniversary

Simon Barrow — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:02:40 +0100

Christian Peacemaker Teams UK, the London Catholic Worker, the Oxford Catholic Worker and Voices UK are organising a peace walk through London on Sunday 7 October 2007 to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.