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Following Jesus in nonviolent struggle for justice and peace, we love our neighbors and enemies as God loves us all, becoming a peace church to share in Gods work to save the world.

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Christian Peacemaker Congress IX

Tearing Down Walls...

Restoring Communities...

September 20-23, 2007
Toronto, Ontario

An ECAPC supported event!!

Christian Peacemaker Teams www.cpt.org (click for full conference information) hosts this conference, with Every Church A Peace Church as its co-sponsor in planning and carrying out the event. Other groups, including Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, support the event with funds and workshop leadership. We encourage ECAPC folks to begin to plan now to cross the border to Canada (take your passport for return to the US!) and participate.

THEME:
Everywhere walls divide and destroy the bonds of human solidarity. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, our choice is between nonviolence or nonexistence.
Explore the power of nonviolence to tear down walls and restore communities broken by violence through worship, workshops, and prophetic public witness.

Speakers

Jim Loney was a member of a Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) delegation that was kidnapped in Baghdad in November 2005. CPT Iraq team member Tom Fox was murdered on March 9, 2006, two weeks before Jim, Harmeet Singh Sooden and Norman Kember were rescued. Jim has been a member of CPT since 2000 and has served on CPT projects in Palestine, Esgenoopetij/Burnt Church, NB; Kenora, ON, and Iraq. He will reflect on the power of nonviolence to dismantle the walls that divide us and build a new sense of human community and solidarity.

Judy Da Sliva is a community member and representative of the Grassy Narrows Environmental Committee. Grassy Narrows is a Treaty 3 Anishnaabe community located in Northwestern Ontario. Since 2002, she has participated in the community blockade of logging roads to the Grassy Narrows Traditional Territories - the longest standing indigenous logging blockade in Canadian history. Judy will describe how the blockade and campaign to stop clearcut logging is an important part of reclaiming dignity by taking a stand in response to the pollution, relocation, flooding of sacred grounds, and other abuses endured by her community.

Workshops
• Stop Depleted Uranium • Undoing Racism • War Tax Resistance • Catholic Worker Movement • GLBTQ Rights • War resisters: US Soldier Iraq War Resister • Every Church A Peace Church • Biblical and Faith Basis of Nonviolence • Simple Living in an Urban Context • Nonviolent Parenting • Peacemaking Between Christians and Muslims • CPT in Palestine; Cpt in Colombia; CPT in Iraq; CPT in Kenora...

Public Witness
    All Peacemaker Congress participants are invited to join in a public action supporting CPT's aboriginal justice work in Canada, and bearing witness to our faith the God of peace and our commitment to the transformative power of nonviolence.

Making Connections
     Besides worship, plenaries and workshops, thre is programmed caucus and unprogrammed social time for you to connect with other peacemakers around shared interests.

To Register Contact:
Christian Peacemaker Teams Canada
25 Cecil St., #307
Toronto, ON M5T 1N1, CANADA
Tel: 416-423-5525
e-mail: canada@cpt.org