Within hours of his death in an Israeli hospital, Ahmed’s heart, kidneys, liver and lungs were restoring life to six other people.
It’s November 2005. Israeli soldiers raid a refugee camp inside the small Palestinian city of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank occupied territories. The soldiers had been there before. This time, [...]

A group of Haitians found a 6-year-old boy still alive in the rubble three days after the earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was weak but alive. When Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) worker Ben Depp happened upon them, he was able to get a hacksaw and a flashlight that helped them complete the boy’s rescue. This [...]

Many of us feel we are caught in the middle of a clash of civilizations. Where extremists wage wars of terror against terror and moderates run for cover. Well recently 138 moderate Muslims came out ‘from under the rubble’ as it were and called upon moderate Christians to form an alliance together against extremism.
In an [...]

The Gaza Freedom March is truly an unprecedented, historic event for the global grass-roots peace movement. This is one of the largest, if not the largest, mass international solidarity action ever undertaken. Some 1,362 people from 42 nations have traveled here to Cairo in order to journey through the Sinai Peninsula into Gaza to join 50,000 [...]

On Sunday 18th October, Jo Berry officially launched Building Bridges for Peace at the Duke of York Cinema, Brighton.

Following the screening of the film, Soldiers of Peace, Jo addressed an audience of over 100 people setting out the aims and aspirations of the charity.
Accompanied by her friend and colleague, Pat Magee, and supported by writer [...]

Fifteen years after genocide, Rwanda is showing signs of healing…I went to Rwanda recently—just a few weeks before the 15th anniversary of the genocide—to see how the church, which itself needs healing and forgiveness for its role in the affair, is dealing with the trauma today. While some wounds still run deep, and problems remain, [...]

Jer31:31
“The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
32It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant, though I [...]

At the end of May 2009 in the Free State provincial capital of Bloemfontein, Vlok washed the feet of 13 former police officers and soldiers, asking their forgiveness for “setting a bad example and leading people astray”. “I have sinned against the Lord and against you,” he told them… Many former policemen and soldiers believe [...]

It’s awfully nice to think of the Other as someone far away and distant, someone from a drastically different culture or background, someone we don’t come into contact with very often, don’t have much in common with, and therefore don’t need to think about very much. But in my world, my Other is a woman [...]

Resolution of the conflict is impossible without addressing its root causes: a brutal Israeli occupation and ongoing colonization now in its fourth decade in the territories, and systemic, legally sanctioned discrimination in Israel proper. But grassroots attempts to cultivate the seeds of cooperation can help further the larger goal, and make the transition to genuine [...]

Here is an article from the newspaper about the programme Jarrod McKenna heads up for Western Australia that helps young people discover their faith in service with others from different faiths.
http://paceebene.org/blog/jarrod-mckenna/multi-faith-youth-service-challenging-racism

The Nassar farm is surrounded by Israeli settlements, and like many Palestinians, the Nassars have endured harassment, threats and attacks from nearby settlers. In one such attack, Daoud Nassar’s mother was threatened with a gun. In another, settlers uprooted 250 olive trees from the property. It is acts like this, Nassar says, that may easily [...]