{"id":96,"date":"2007-12-31T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T15:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2008-01-04T20:56:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T02:56:51","slug":"pray-for-peace-this-new-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"PRAY FOR PEACE THIS NEW YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is on-going needless bloodshed\u00a0tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenya, Dec 29-31 2007 has seen violence and chaos break out in Nairobi<\/strong> after fraudulent elections.\u00a0 I have several friends who still live in Kibera slum<\/em> (1 million residents in a 2km square area), the heart of the violence, in addition to Maryknollers (Americans) doing mission work there.\u00a0 Nearly 100 people have already died (as of Dec 31 2007) (over 300 have died as of Jan 5), and the tribal violence continues. <\/span><\/p>\n

See article on the International Herald Tribune:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/12\/31\/africa\/AF-POL-Kenya-Elections.php<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, while most of us are also aware of Sudan’s Darfur region, <\/span>Somalia has become worse than Darfur and grossly deglected by international bodies due in part to Darfur’s high attention in the last 6 months.\u00a0 Yet Somalia continues to live in chaos, violence, and fear due to anarchy since the mid 1990s, which again sparked up in the last couple months, creating a living hell for all people there.\u00a0 Minneapolis – St. Paul has many Somalian immigrants\u00a0who have come from that violent hell who\u00a0can undoubtedly would appreciate all the outreach, support, and friendship-building availiable.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Please keep Kenyans,\u00a0Somalians, Sudanese, and Middle Easterners from Saudi Arabia to Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan\u00a0in your prayers and pray for PEACE around the world,<\/strong> that all people around the world may see the light and say to their leaders who propagate extremism, intolerance, hate, and war of all kinds\u00a0due to\u00a0power and economic insentives (“The Military Industrial Complex,” as coined by former pres. Eisenhower): “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! NEVER AGAIN WILL WE KILL ANOTHER! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“WE ARE ONE, BUT WE’RE NOT THE SAME, WE GET TO CARRY EACHOTHER”\u00a0–<\/strong>from One<\/em> by U2<\/span><\/p>\n

“THERE’S NO ONE JUST LIKE ME, YET AS DIFFERENT AS WE ARE WE’RE STILL THE SAME”<\/strong> – from Season Suite<\/em> by John Denver<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is on-going needless bloodshed\u00a0tonight. Kenya, Dec 29-31 2007 has seen violence and chaos break out in Nairobi after fraudulent elections.\u00a0 I have several friends who still live in Kibera slum (1 million residents in a 2km square area), the heart of the violence, in addition to Maryknollers (Americans) doing mission work there.\u00a0 Nearly 100 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-petes-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}