LATEST NEWS FROM CREATORS OF PEACE CIRCLES

July:

1 Creators of peace circle going on in the North-Western part of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2 A Facilitators' training will be taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

3 Creators of Peace women from Sudan meet in Caux, IofC Centre in Switzerland to seek inspiration for their country at a critical time. July 9-16.

4 July 18 Sydney, Australia, a Creators of Peace and Initiatives of Change combined gathering to get fresh news of the first Creators of Peace workshop in Timor Leste and report back from recent IofC and CoP initiatives in Kenya.

June:

1 Malaysia's first Mandarin speaking Peace Circle has just concluded.

2 Adelaide, South Australia: Following four consecutive Peace Circles, participants consider local action and possible Peace Circle exchanges.

3 Lebanon: ' Linaltaki', the Creators of Peace sister movement in Lebanon, is planning a camp for children from Muslim and Christian communities together.

4 The South African Creators of Peace team conducted workshops for 26 volunteers and carers of SANTA (South African National Tuberculosis Association) who work among communities of Mossel Bay, a southern Cape Town.

5 Uganda, Creators of peace circle workshop will be happening this month in Kampala.

Zimbabwe

Regional Coordinator Angie Katito reports from Gweru:

After months of effort to find a ‘suitable’ meeting place, we now have a daily Creators of Peace Circle right here at my clinic. Twelve of us - men and women - meet daily during the lunch break. For citizens who have only known a false peace in our country, the idea of peace building as an essential part of daily living  took off miraculously among both health staff, patients and members of the public in the vicinity of the clinic. 'I’m beginning to feel victorious over my temper, after a long battle’ says a fellow nurse. ‘I found the way to live at peace with a very close but difficult neighbour’ says another. ‘Thanks to the peace circle’.

‘I now think, pray and wait before answering back,’ says an elderly member of the group. A lay pastor takes a leading role in our daily discussions. He writes ‘as a result of the peace circle, my wife has undergone a major change. I think it is because I have taken up the challenge to live as I preach and pray. I now reap some of the fruit of a prayerful life. Thanks to the Spirit of the peace circle.’