“Walking Together for Peace” Colombia Pilgrimage

Location:	Apartado, Antioquia, Colombia
Category:	Emergency Aid & Crisis Relief
Published:	13 August 2008
Progress:	0% funded
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Approximately 400 people will go on a Peace Pilgrimage from October 1st to October 5th, 2008.
Peace workers from Israel, Palestine and many more countries - including representatives of the “new South American spirit of resurrection” from Mexico, Ecuador and other countries - will be led by Sabine Lichtenfels and Padre Javier Giraldo, together with experienced regional guides. The idea for this pilgrimage grew out of the long standing cooperation between the Peace Research Centre Tamera, Portugal, and the Peace Village San José de Apartadó.
Together with the inhabitants of other Colombian Peace Villages, they will show with this peace action their commitment to build up a global peace force which no longer stops at national borders.
The pilgrimage will pass through villages and hamlets surrounding San José, where, due to their remoteness, people live near military posts, police headquarters and other significant locations of the rebellion, totally unprotected between the fronts of the civil war. The goal of the pilgrimage is to become familiar with the threat to which Colombian peasants are exposed, to develop peace strategies, and to strengthen the Ring of Power – a confraternity for a future without war!

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English (1):

j. bertholo

GRACE Pilgrimage - Walking Together for Peace

by j. bertholo, posted about 1 year ago

For 5 days a group of approximately 400 people from all over the world will Walk for Peace in Colombia led by Sabine Lichtenfels, Padre Javier Giraldo and Benjamin von Mendelssohn.

Passing through villages and hamlets surrounding the area of San J

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Advocates (8):

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  F. Wiesmann

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  ich habe Bewohner des Dorfes San José kennen gelernt und war berührt und beeindruckt von ihrer Integrität und ihrem bedingungslosen Einsatz für ein friedliches Zusammenleben ohne Gewalt, das sie inmmitten einer Region aufbauen, die von täglicher massiver Gewalt erschüttert wird. Für diese Menschen ist eine internationale Unterstützung wie die Grace-Pilgerschaft überlebenswichtig. Ich kenne auch die Initiatorin dieser Pilgerschaft, Sabine Lichtenfels, und weiß um ihren uneigennützigen Einsatz für Friedens- und Sozialprojekte in aller Welt. Ich kann die Förderung dieses Projektes von ganzem Herzen empfehlen.

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  S. Lichtenfels
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  by S. Lichtenfels, asked on 19 August 2008 at 08:15 PM
  Was für eine tolle Arbeit. Wie kann man am besten mithelfen, dass sich die Nachricht verbreitet? Herzlich Sabine Lichtenfels