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Article: Building peace: one life at a time.(LETTER FROM GALILEE)(Kids4Peace)
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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IN THE CENTRE of the church hall a dozen youngsters were seated in a circle together with three adults. All held an olive branch in their hands.
The group consisted of eleven-year-old Jewish, Muslim and Christian boys and girls--two boys and two girls from each faith. The adults were advisers from each of the faiths. This was a training meeting of Kids4Peace in the town of Raineh on the outskirts of Nazareth in Galilee.
Kids4Peace is an interfaith educational program initiated by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. I first visited the founder in Jerusalem three years ago, but I was formally re-introduced when he met with a group from ...