Breaking a Generation

A few weeks ago I posted on our experience in Aroub Refugee Camp, meeting with former child detainees and hearing about Defence for Children International's work in Palestine. The most recent edition of Sabeel's Cornerstone newsletter - Breaking a Generation - focuses on this issue, with much input from Gerard Horton - the lawyer we heard from when we were there. Very interesting reading, including first-hand accounts from former detainees, a former soldier with the Israeli Defence Forces, and a parent.

(The text of the sermon given by Salwa Duaibis at our conference's opening worship service is also included in the newsletter.)

We pray...

for the children,

that the children may live,

that they may have children of their own

and that it will go on -

this great blossoming that is meant to go on and on -

we pray for peace, in their name.

that they would have a world worth being born into,

a future worth dreaming about,

that they might become, in their own time,

all that our race might come to be,

- that they might have that chance -

we pray for peace, in their name.

from “Praying for Peace” ed. Michael Hare Duke