From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 10:43:30 EST
November 11, 2003 == MEDIA ADVISORY
On Monday, November 17 at 8 pm, Calvin College's Paul B. Henry Institute for
the Study of Christianity and Politics will sponsor a lecture by Ghazi
Briegieth - a Palestinian Muslim who is dedicated to the search for peace in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Briegieth lives in a small Palestinian agricultural community north of Hebron
on the West Bank. In November of 2000, Israeli soldiers shot and killed his
two brothers (aged 14 and 31). The tragedy brought him to his current personal
commitment to ending the war.
He now is part of the Israeli & Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace, also
known as the Family Circle or the Families' Forum, a gathering of Palestinians
and Israelis who've lost family members due to the violence in the middle east.
Bereaved Families for Peace "is searching for a just and sustainable peaceful
resolution to the crisis, as they put a human face on the suffering and loss
which is resulting from the ongoing conflict."
Briegieth offers a powerful message about the need to break the descending
circle of violence and find a political resolution to the tragic conflict
between Israelis and Palestinians. He describes his current personal
commitment as saying, "No to war, yes to peace. No to killing, yes to life."
His lecture at Calvin will be held in the Commons Lecture Hall. It is free
and open to the public. It is one of several talks Briegieth will give in West
Michigan this week and next.
Those events include:
*a civic forum on November 12 at 7 pm at the Herrick Library auditorium in
Holland
*a meeting on November 13 at 11 am at Hope College
*a forum on November 13 at 7 pm at Ada Congregational Church
*a forum on November 14 at 7 pm in Traverse City
*a reception on November 15 at 7 pm at the Leaf & Bean coffee house in
Holland
His trip throughout West Michigan is organized and sponsored by the Nonviolent
Ways Project of Holland, an affiliate of Strategic Pastoral Action, with help
from other organizations such as Holland Peacemakers, Mideast Just Peace and
the West Michigan Justice and Peace Coalition.
LINKS
For more information on the speaker below contact nonviolence@rehberg.net
See http://www.nonviolentways.org
See http://www.mideastweb.org/bereaved_families_forum.htm
See http://www.calvin.edu/henry/core.htm
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