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	<description>Website for Bridgefolk, a movement of sacramentally-minded Mennonites and peace-minded Roman Catholics who come together to celebrate each other&#039;s traditions, explore each other&#039;s practices, and honor each other&#039;s contribution to the mission of Christ&#039;s Church.</description>
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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>Conference on future of liberation theology includes examination of Mennonite peacemaking</title>
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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>Julia Smucker, &#8220;Respect for Life: The Consistent Life Ethic in Catholic Social Teaching&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read Julia Smucker&#8217;s recent article in Life Matters Journal surveying the development of &#8220;consistent life ethics&#8221; in recent Catholic teaching. Smucker is an enthusiastic Bridgefolk participant and an MA student in Theology at Saint John&#8217;s School of Theology in Collegeville, MN.  She describes herself as proud that fellow students have dubbed her The Anti-Dichotomy [...]]]></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>Mennonite leaders reflect positively on Assisi day of prayer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Release Mennonite World Conference by Ron Rempel, MWC news editor Assisi, Italy (MWC) —Danisa Ndlovu, Mennonite World Conference (MWC) president, and Larry Miller, MWC general secretary, joined with leaders of many other religious communities and several humanist organizations October 27, 2011 for a day of reflection, dialogue and personal prayer in Assisi, Italy, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assisi: May religions bring justice and peace upon the earth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY, 28 OCT 2011 (VIS) &#8211; Shortly before 4 p.m. yesterday, the Holy Father and the heads of delegation left the convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, and walked in procession across the square in front of the building. They then boarded minibuses which took them to Piazza San Francesco for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Benedict: Force in the name of Christian faith a great shame and an abuse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assisi day of prayer for peace &#8211; today and 25 years ago VATICAN CITY, 27 OCT 2011 (VIS) &#8211; Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the historic meeting for peace in the Italian town of Assisi, called by Blessed John Paul II. For the occasion, Benedict XVI has made a pilgrimage to the city of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Benedict: The Kingdom of Christ cannot be built by force</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY, 26 OCT 2011 (VIS) &#8211; Because of the rain, the Holy Father presided over this morning&#8217;s celebration of the Word in the Paul VI Hall, rather than in St. Peter&#8217;s Square as had been scheduled. The celebration of the Word took the place of the usual general audience, in view of the event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prize winner connected to peace-church tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harrisonburg, VA (EMU) &#8212; One of the three women receiving the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, Leymah Gbowee, is closely connected with the “peace-church tradition” of the Mennonites. Gbowee, who shares the prize with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s rights activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, earned a master’s degree in conflict transformation from the [...]]]></description>
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