Ask for God's grace that the church may undo colonial oppression by opposing resource extraction at the expense of First Nations, and by respecting Indian life, lands and waters.  Pray for new Christian Peacemaker Teams delegates to First Nations territories in Canada.

Holy Spirit, spur willing churches and people of faith to undertake bold, compassionate acts of justice-building, to disrupt corrupt, oppressive systems and to proclaim and enact the healing of the nations. Anoint Christian Peacemaker Teams and Outreach Coordinator Sarah Thompson with evangelical fervor.

Pray for forty villages near the Urra dam in Tierralta, Cordoba, Colombia, visited by Christian Peacemaker Teams. May God work in their organizing in defense of their communities from armed groups, resource extraction interests and Phase 2 of the dam megaproject.

Pray that the women of Iraqi Kurdistan may find freedom from domestic violence, discrimination in legal and medical systems, honor killings and other forms of oppression. Give strength and courage to those who advance women's rights and well-being.

God, grant that those persecuting you in your people in Palestine -- demolishing homes, cisterns and houses of prayer, and justifying the pillage by the need to practice war -- will turn from their vanity and practice love and peacemaking instead.

Pray with Christian Peacemaker Teams partner Grassy Narrows First Nation after Ontario's Court of Appeals authorized Ontario to grant logging permits on the Nation's traditional territory, based on a colonial legal argument rejected by international law for centuries.

Jesus, let the blood of the brutalized, the sweat of the
threatened, and widows' tears lubricate love, awaken zeal, 
and resurrect humanity, that we may confront people and
systems that -- in robbing, terrorizing and uprooting Lilia
and millions of Colombians -- are persecuting you.

Lord, renew among your war-weary people the gifts of lamentation
in the face of wrong, sharing in suffering, partnering with all who
stand in and for peace and good, and offering oneself to protect
from harm anyone branded as "enemy".

Pray for all connected to grids of power, that we may learn from the excluded, threatened and expelled how to overcome apathy, indifference and collusion as powers and principalities target land, air, sea, life. May we welcome, not dread, God's new thing.

Pray for strength for First Nations women in leadership roles in their communities and in grass roots social justice work. Pray for Canadian settlers to effectively deter the colonial oppression of predatory sexual assault by non-native men against First Nations women.