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Christian Peacemaker Teams UK
Christian Peacemaker Teams UK is an umbrella group for regional CPT groups in the United Kingdom.
We provide support for CPT members and fellow travellers around the UK as they follow Christ's way of shalom both locally and internationally. We offer resources and speakers for churches around the UK interested in learning more about Christian Peacemaking.
We hope to raise the visibility of nonviolence as an alternative way of solving conflict and specifically introduce UK Christians to the work of CPT. We also want to build relationships with other like-minded organizations across the country.
Submitted by webmaster on 28 March, 2006 - 01:20.
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Prayerful Brainstorming: how to best support the work in Britain for justice in the Middle East?
19 Apr 2008 - 16:30
19 Apr 2008 - 18:30
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CPT corps members and CPT supporters will gather on April 19th to pray and brainstorm together about how we can most effectively support the movement for peace and justice in the Middle East.
If you have been feeling either particularly discouraged or especially motivated in the wake of the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and the newest wave of violence in Israel/Palestine, this forum will speak to those struggles.
Location
London Mennonite Centre, 14 Shepherds Hill, London, N6 5AQ
Submitted by dmgoulet on 25 March, 2008 - 10:53.
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CPT Lent Resources
Check out the CPT Lent resources at: http://www.cpt.org/particiapte/campaigns/palestine_lent_2008
Channel 4 on Christmas Day: The Hidden Story of Jesus
The Hidden Story of Jesus
C4 Tuesday 25 December 2007 8.30pm
As Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, theologian Robert Beckford investigates remarkable parallels to the Christ story in other faiths, some of them predating Christianity by thousands of years.
Two CPTers, Eileen Hanson and Jonathan Stucky, were interviewed as part of the production of this program while serving in Palestine.
For more information check out the Channel 4 website:
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/hidden.html
CPT on the BBC
BBC Radio Humberside has a short article and a recorded interview on their website about CPT in Hebron! Check it out while it's still there:
www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/articles/2007/11/09/hebron_feature.shtml
Pre-lobby Bring and Share Broo-ha-ha
27 Nov 2007 - 19:00
27 Nov 2007 - 21:00
Description
We thought we'd use the excuse of the ENOUGH lobby on the 28th (www.enoughoccupation.org.uk) to gather on the evening of the 27th to talk about the work of CPT and other related things!
Just bring an appetite and food to share!
Location
London Mennonite Centre, 14 Shepherds Hill, London, N6 5AQ
Submitted by dmgoulet on 10 October, 2007 - 12:38.
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Peacemaking in Palestine
24 Oct 2007 - 19:00
24 Oct 2007 - 21:00
Description
A talk by John Lynes on his recent and long-term experiences of peacemaking in Israel/Palestine.
Location
the new Quaker Meeting House, Bean Street, Hull
Submitted by dmgoulet on 26 September, 2007 - 14:13.
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BBC coverage of CPT in Hebron
The BBC News website has just published a gallery of photographs documenting the work of CPT in the West Bank town of Hebron. The photo above shows UK CPTers Jan Benvie from Glasgow (left) and John Lynes from Eastbourne (second from right), along with other team members. The full gallery of photos on the BBC website shows a little of the situation in Hebron. Update from John Lynes in Palestine
John Lynes is a CPTer from East Sussex. He will return to the UK on 25th January.
Good news at last, from two directions. The Palestinian village of Susya is several miles from At-Tuwani, on the edge of the Negev Desert in the occupied West Bank. The villagers, all cave-dwellers, were expelled from their caves in the 1980s to make way for an archaeological park containing a synagogue from the 2nd century AD. They continued to farm their former fields, living in huts and tents not far from the Israeli settlement of Susiya. The Israeli settlers repeatedly harassed the settlers, preventing them from cultivating their lands.
Submitted by justinalexander on 18 January, 2007 - 18:03.
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CPT hostages call for forgiveness
Speaking at a press conference in London, Jim Loney, Norman Kember and Harmeet Singh Sooden called for restorative justice not the death penalty for their former captors.
"We unconditionally forgive our captors for abducting and holding us. We have no desire to punish them. Punishment can never restore what was taken from us.
What our captors did was wrong. They caused us, our families and our friends great suffering. Yet we bear no malice towards them and have no wish for retribution. Should those who have been charged with holding us hostage be brought to trial and convicted, we ask that they be granted all possible leniency. We categorically lay aside any rights we may have over them."
Kidnapping is a capital offence in Iraq and we understand that some of our captors could be sentenced to death. The death penalty is an irrevocable judgment. It erases all possibility that those who have harmed others, even seriously, can yet turn to good. We categorically oppose the death penalty.