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		<title>MWC requests prayer for Honduran church following murder of pastor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mennonite World Conference has issued the following press release in the wake of the murder of Rafael Erasmo Arevalo, a Mennonite pastor in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras.  Bridgefolk participant Joetta Schlabach has been traveling in Central America and had recently talked with other church workers in the Copán area.  Motives for the murder are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invoking the gift of unity among Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY, 18 JAN 2012 (VIS) &#8211; The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins today, was the theme of Benedict XVI&#8217;s general audience celebrated this morning in the Paul VI Hall. The Holy Father explained how this initiative has been held annually for more than a century and brings together Christians from Churches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week of prayer for Christian unity begins tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY, 17 JAN 2012 (VIS) &#8211; The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is due to begin tomorrow, 18 January, under the theme &#8220;We will all be changed by the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ&#8221;. The Week is promoted by the World Council of Churches (WCC), a worldwide fellowship of 349 Churches seeking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference on future of liberation theology includes examination of Mennonite peacemaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Plankey National Catholic Reporter  Mexico City (NCR)  &#8211; More than 300 theologians and pastoral workers met here last month in anticipation of the anniversaries of two events that have shaped contemporary Latin America: the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the 40th anniversary of the publishing of Gustavo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic bishop and Mennonite Central Committee worker in Guatemala join to resist dam project threatening Maya Indian land</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tobias Roberts International Development Worker (reposted from the Huffington Post) Tension filled the cramped, block-wall room in the Guatemalan highlands as indigenous leaders sat across from negotiators for ENEL, an Italian-based energy company building a $228-million hydro-electric dam in the area. Local Mayan Ixhil leaders hoped the presence of a renowned Catholic archbishop, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darrin Snyder Belousek publishes major study on the atonement and peacemaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk participant and board member Darrin Snyder Belousek has just published a major new book on atonement.  The book develops a biblical theology of the cross in connection with justice and peacemaking.  Published by Eerdmans, the book is entitled Atonement, Justice, and Peace: The Message of Cross and the Mission of the Church.   Belousek notes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Herr, RIP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend and mentor Gene Herr died on January 1, 2012.   Below are his obituary and funeral plans, from http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/geneherr. Obituary and Funeral Plans Herbert Eugene (Gene) Herr passed away atage 79 on January 1, 2012, in Hesston, Kansas. He died from complications related to cancer. Gene was born on May 11, 1932 in Strasburg, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please pray for Gene Herr</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2011/12/24/please-pray-for-gene-herr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just received news that Gene Herr, who has been struggling with brain cancer, is in the hospital and may be nearing death.   Gene has been a friend and mentor to many in Bridgefolk.   Many of the Mennonites who participated in the early years of Bridgefolk credit him and his decades of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Christian Forum holds second international gathering</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2011/12/05/global-christian-forum-holds-second-international-gathering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Release Mennonite World Conference  by Ron Rempel, MWC news editor &#160; Manado, Indonesia (MWC) &#8211;Anabaptists were among the 287 participants in a diverse Christian gathering held here October 4-7, 2011. The meeting was the second international gathering of the Global Christian Forum (GCF). The first was held in Kenya in 2007. Participants came from [...]]]></description>
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