On Monday 11 February a settler's car hit Jamil Fakhoury,
a 9-year-old Palestinian boy, near the Ibrahimi school in
the old city of Hebron.

Indigenous Haudenausonee
and settlers weave a future
after an agreement's first
400 years.

Lord, restore dignity to those who demolish homes, irrigation systems and olive groves, who practice bombing and shooting all night near residential areas, or oppress by other weapons from the arsenal of occupation.  By the prayers of the faithful, from intended oppression, fashion Beloved Community.

"Where is Palestine?" I asked my mother.

"You don’t know?!" she replied incredulously. "Palestine isn’t a real place. It doesn’t exist."

I don't have to comfort a crying baby awakened by an explosion.
I don't have to wake up for school the next day.
I don't have to feel this fear every night. 

Prayers for Peacemakers, February 6, 2013

Pray that heirs of the Two Row Wampum Covenant of 1613, between North American natives and settlers, may be honored by care for the earth and mutual respect among nations in the Hudson River area and throughout North America.

Four hundred years after a landmark 
covenant between the Haudenosaunee
and European settlers, the earth and
many nations are hoping for a renewal
of commitments to honor it.

Pray for six kidnap victims, their loved ones and their ELN guerrilla captors in Colombia.  Pray that the unarmed, the poor, women, farmers, people committed to social and environmental health, may shape a just and peaceful future, as the power of greed and guns wanes.

In Masafer Yatta, Palestine, Israeli
soldiers began military exercises
in the area they have called "Firing
Zone 918".

A dozen peacemakers, many dressed in orange jumpsuits, papered the federal building with images of some of the eighty-six men whom the U.S. government has cleared for release but who remain in detention at Guantánamo.