Christian Peacemaker Teams - period ended 1.15.2006

Christian Peacemaker Teams/Peace Activities/Vigil/Fox, Tom/Vigils Held at Home for Abducted Peace Activist/WJLA/Washington/DC/USA/4-Jan-2006/AP/5 Total Instances - Winchester (AP) - A Quaker congregation continues to conduct weekly vigils for Tom Fox, one of four peace activists kidnapped Nov. 26 in Iraq. ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams/Peace Activities/Vigil/Meetinhouse/Prayers continue for Iraq hostages/New Zealand Herald/Auckland/New Zealand/Oceania/5-Jan-2006//…. Christian Peacemaker Teams, a Chicago group, is opposed to the war and US military presence in Iraq.

Mr Fox, who arrived in Baghdad in October 2004, contemplated the possibility that he would be kidnapped.

"I am to stand firm against the kidnapper as I am to stand firm against the soldier," he wrote in one of the first entries in his Web log detailing his work in Iraq as a Christian peace activist.

Hope continues for the hostages and this week Paul Buchanan, a former CIA intelligence consultant and senior politics lecturer at Auckland University, said the silence from the kidnappers probably indicated a ransom was being negotiated. ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams/Peace Activities/Vigil/Fox, Tom/Prayers continue for Iraq hostages/New Zealand Herald/Auckland/New Zealand/Oceania/6-Jan-2006//A Quaker congregation in the United States is continuing to hold weekly vigils for a group, including an Auckland student, being held hostage in Iraq. ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams/Peace Activities/Iraq//Still no word on four activists abducted in Iraq/Globe and Mail/Toronto/Ontario/Canada/13-Jan-2006//... All four men were working in Iraq for Christian Peacemaker Teams, a Chicago- and Toronto-based organization backed by the Brethren, Quaker and Mennonite ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams/Peace Activities/Fox, Tom/.."Too many people are willing to die to wage war, too few are willing to die for peace"

Doug Smith, quoting his friend and colleague Tom Fox .../Christian volunteers still captive in Iraq/Aljazeera.net/Qatar/M.E./7-Jan-2006//…Who funded his trip and his work there?



Each CPT volunteer is asked to help raise funds to support CPT's work. Tom asked for and received financial support from a number of groups and individuals, including Langley Hill Friends (Quaker) Meeting, where Tom is a member of the congregation, and the Northern Virginia Mennonite church.



The Quakers and Mennonites, along with the Church of the Brethren, are the primary sponsoring organisations for CPT. ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams/Peace Activities/Fox, Tom/Bacon, Anne/Friends of Virginia hostage in Iraq still hopeful/Richmond Times Dispatch/Richmond/VA/USA/3-Jan-2006//... The Winchester-area Quaker congregation that housed Fox continues to hold weekly vigils for the hostages' release, said Anne Bacon, the group's leader. ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams/Fox, Tom/Edelstein, Beth/To All People Everywhere,/The Baltimore Chronicle/Baltimore/MD/USA/11-Jan-2006//... Homewood Friends meeting has at the center of its corporate religious life a ... that Tom Fox (USA), a member of our Religious Society of Friends, Norman Kember (UK ...

Christian Peacemaker Teams/Conflict Resolution/Thrift//Bali: An exotic destination holds danger/Palladium-Item/Richmond/IN/USA/8-Jan-2006//…Christian peacemakers meeting on a Hindu island in a Muslim country seeking ways to reduce violence in the world, and living with the threat of bombings while there, posed an obvious irony. So why choose to go, given the potential danger?

"Well," Don said with a smile, "we got a really good price on transportation and accommodations, and you know Brethren and Quakers, they love the word "cheap!'" Then he added in a serious voice, "If we're going to discuss ways to bring peace, it's essential we listen to people who live with the threat of violence every day. Taking risks for the right reasons becomes necessary." ...