Israeli settlers attack children and peace workers

Several Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian children and two Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) workers as they walked to their village of Tuba on Sunday 27 July 2008. The children had been attending summer camp in the village of At-Tuwani. As the fourteen children...

Peacemaking after Christendom

During Christianity’s early years, as the church moved from being a series of transitional movements to a collection of settled institutions, a blurring occurred in the distinction between Pax Christi, the kind of peace made possible by Jesus the Son of God, and Pax...

Beyond rich-poor stereotypes

One morning, a couple of days after arriving as part of a recent Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation to Colombia, we gathered in the park opposite our hotel for our morning reflection in which we touched upon a number of themes including poverty. The expression...

Christian peace delegates visit West Bank and Israel

Thirteen supporters of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and On Earth Peace, an agency of the US Church of the Brethren, have visited the West Bank and Israel to explore civil society responses to conflict, security and community. The trip took place from from 8...

The rhetoric and the reality of terror

I sat in the Jerusalem Hotel restaurant on Sunday 27 January 2008 and read the headline in the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, “Yeshiva counselor who killed terrorists lives to tell the tale.” In that article Elyakim Kovatch, the counselor who shot two...