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		<title>World March for Peace and Nonviolence comes to Bethlehem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 14, 2009

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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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I have just returned from the United Kingdom where I was one of several speakers at the Annual Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham (27-30 August). Greenbelt (www.greenbelt.org.uk) describes itself as an “independent Christian festival working to express love, creativity and justice in the arts and contemporary culture in the light of the Christian gospel.” It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samiawad.wordpress.com&blog=488265&post=273&subd=samiawad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing For Change: Song Around the World &#8220;Stand By Me&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Palestine Summer Encounter 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sami Awad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestine Summer Encounter is a one to three month service learning and cultural immersion program in Bethlehem, Palestine. Participants study Arabic in and outside of the classroom setting, live with a Palestinian host family, volunteer and meet with both Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers.
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		<title>From the Broken Heart of Gaza &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father Manuel Musallam, the Parish Priest of Gaza has written to the wider Church of God. His letter was made public in January 2009. It has inspired Garth to write this song, and others to help him put together these images to the go with the words and music. &#8230;

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		<title>Personal Reflection on Gaza&#8230; A letter I Wrote to Friends&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this period I did not take on an opportunity to travel to the peace research village in Tamera Portugal and be with a group of close friends that are engaging in a deep process to build what will be a Peace Research Village (PRV) in the Middle East…. For many reasons I was not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samiawad.wordpress.com&blog=488265&post=246&subd=samiawad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never Go Down&#8230; Never Give Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Dont just stop the violence&#8230; launch nonviolence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our hearts weep to see so much suffering in Gaza. Violence will never lead to any peaceful solution to any conflict. All violence must stop and all negotiations must stop as well. The only success for achieving real results is found in the re-establishment of the grassroots nonviolence resistance movement in Palestine. This will not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samiawad.wordpress.com&blog=488265&post=242&subd=samiawad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So be Good for Goodness Sake…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sami Awad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday Santa Clause stood in solidarity with and attempted to go where fewer and fewer Palestinians are able to go, their own farm lands in the southern hills of the Beautiful little town called Bethlehem. For the second year in a row, taking time away from his main work in this very busy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samiawad.wordpress.com&blog=488265&post=237&subd=samiawad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Reflection: From Palestine to the Jungles of Colombia, the Solution is One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sami Awad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from an incredible experience. From the 25th of September to the 10th of October and for the first time in my life I traveled to Latin America, more specifically to an incredible area in the north of Colombia, where the absolute beauty and tranquility of God’s creation and the majesty of Mother [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samiawad.wordpress.com&blog=488265&post=221&subd=samiawad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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