LATEST NEWS FROM CREATORS OF PEACE CIRCLES

March:
 
In Malaysia from March 4-7 a Tools for change conference will Include a Creators of Peace Circle and Peace Circle facilitation workshops. Women will attend from Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran and India.

A Creators of Peace Day will be held in Nagaland, India, this month and also a reunion following the fifth International Creators of Peace Conference in Sydney.

Creators of Peace Circles currently running in Australia,Scandinavia, South Africa, Canada and Scotland.

February:

First Creators of Peace Circle started in Scotland .

A series of Peace Circle introductory occasions to run through February and March in South Australia from which people will be
invited to sign up for Peace Circles.

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.’