PRAYERS FOR PEACEMAKERS, Wed., Apr. 29, 2009

Pray for the people of central Iraq. Several bombs in the past week have killed over 200 people in Shia markets and holy sites. Iraqis fear an escalation of sectarian violence.

Doug Pritchard
Christian Peacemaker Teams
Toronto, Canada

On 26 April 2009 Palestinians from the South Hebron Hills village of Um al Kheir changed the route of a road that Israeli settlers from Karmel settlement were constructing.  The villagers, acting with At-Tuwani team members, nonviolently blocked the road-building equipment as it prepared the roadbed on land that belongs to Palestinians living in the village of Um al Kheir.