CPTnet
18 April 2007
COLOMBIA: Join with Colombian Christians in Prayer and Action May 20 and 21

"Sisters and brothers, please join us in fervent prayer and faithful witness
for a sustainable peace in Colombia," So write three partners of Christian
Peacemaker Teams Colombia Team: Jenny Neme of Justapaz, Ricardo Esquivia of
CEDECOL, and Peter Stucky of the Colombian Mennonite Church. Every day, the
CPT Colombia Team bears witness to a war in which civilians are the primary
victims of threats and assassinations. More than 3.5 million people are
displaced, the second largest internally displaced population in the world.
Yet thousands risk their lives to heed God's call for peace by working for
justice and an end to war.

CPT invites all of our members and supporters in Colombia, the United
States, and Canada to engage your faith communities in the international
days of prayer and action, May 20 and 21. Take a day to remember our
brothers and sisters in Colombia in prayer and worship, and then act by
asking your government to take action on Colombia's humanitarian crisis.

To get involved, go to www.peaceincolombia.org, the website of the Colombia
Steering Committee of the Latin America Working Group, to which CPT belongs.
Both congregations and individuals may access the many worship and action
materials on the site: you'll find prayers, liturgies, sample letters and
postcards to elected representatives, and tips for holding public witness
and educational events. Congregations in both the United States and Canada
are asked to register their involvement by e-mailing their name and location
to jtrowbridge@lawg.org.

Additional resources may be found at http://www.mcc.org/us/washington/days/;
Mennonite congregations may also register through
http://peace.mennolink.org/resources/colombiaprayer07/index.html. Check the
CPT website for ongoing updates on the work of CPT and its Colombian
partners, and for additional tools for prayer and witness. To read the call
from the Colombian churches and a recent report on the impacts of the
conflict on protestant churches, see
http://www.justapaz.org/COLOMBIAN-PROTESTANT-CHURCHES.
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