Benedicta Quispe Martinez, 43 years old Presente Cesar Flores Balboa, 1 year old Presente Lorenza Janampa de la Cruz, 50 years old Presente. The names came in what felt like a somewhat endless stream. Presente,…
It was announced on September 23 that the peace talks which have been ongoing for well over a year in Havana, Cuba between the Colombian government and some guerrilla groups seem to have reached the…
The vanquished know war, began Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and war correspondent turned Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges in an hour-long major address to friends and admirers of the peacemaking activities of Anne Barstow and Tom…
In 2010, as we approached the General Assembly in Minneapolis, the PPF National Committee went through a four-month long discernment and writing process to articulate the principles that would guide our growing commitment to take…
For Immediate Release 9.24.12 STONY POINT, New York -- The National Committee of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship has voted unanimously to give its Peaceseeker Award for 2013 to Jewish Voice for Peace and the Israel/Palestine…
by Melinda Thompson With a 71% favorable vote, the 220th General Assembly passed the following overture calling for a boycott of all Israeli goods produced in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT): The Presbyterian Church (USA)…
Conflict, Violence, and Murders of Colombian Activists Concern U.S. Groups 10 Apr 2012 The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), Latin America Working Group (LAWG), U.S. Office on Colombia (USOC), Center for International Policy (CIP)…
PPF member Katie Rains shares how she came to be arrested as part of a nonviolent demonstration against the Colombia Free Trade Agreement on July 11, 2011. In 2008-2009, Katie Rains served as a Young…