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Friends, nous sommes ensemble – we are together – for peace! I produced this song in Goma, DRC, where peace is desperately needed. I wrote it in minutes, on a short flight because over 100 rebel groups made road travel unsafe. Once we landed, rebel fighting prevented us from completing our humanitarian missions to help internally displaced people fleeing conflict. We passed deserted homes and... more
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I was excited to meet Milcah Kizitu this month. She joined our peace education movement last year from a training workshop our local coordinators, Chrispo and Joshua, led. I'll let Milcah share what happened next in her own words.
After the workshop, I started preaching peace in the school right away. I taught the teachers, I shared with them what we had learned in the workshop, and we... more
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Rev. Fredrick Kisitu is a very loving man. He pastored in a slum in Kampala for years, then started a school for disadvantaged children when he retired. But he didn't know that peace included his Muslim neighbours until he made friends with a Muslim at our CryPeace workshop.
Rev. Kisitu shares,
"That seminar actually changed me so much, talking about peace at home, peace with our neighbours,... more
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Today, I had a meeting with Joshua Oyergiu, our peace partner in Uganda. We are planning how to expand our peace program in 2025. When Joshua started sharing from his heart how relevant our peace curriculum is to his students, and how he wished everyone, young and old alike, had the opportunity to learn how to nurture more peaceful relationships, I asked him to please share his message with you.... more
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Last weekend, I walked through the streets of Toronto with a 12-foot puppet named Amal. Amal represents a 10-year-old Syrian girl who has lost her mother and is looking for a new home. It was wonderful to be part of the crowd that welcomed her with songs, food and love, and to share that sense of community with fellow Torontonians and newcomers.
This video shares the joy of the event, with songs... more
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Friends, I am excited to share recent and upcoming CryPeace activities with you, and to invite you to become a partner in CryPeace activities in new ways.
First and most significantly, my first song, Nous Sommes Ensemble (We Are Together), is now available on your favourite music app or store, as well as CryPeace's website. I believe it was inspired for times such as these, and my dream is that... more
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This summer, I explored new aspects of something that has long fascinated me — dancing for peace. Dancing is one of my favourite endorphin-enhancing activities that help me get out of my head and into my body. Invariably, dancing increases my joy and peace, along with my heart rate. So when Dances of Universal Peace practitioners met in Toronto's High Park, I joined them to incant peace into our... more
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Three years ago, my heart pulled me to Israel and Palestine to experience the reality of this iconic conflict for myself, talk to Israelis and Palestinians, and search for ways to support peace. It is one of the hardest places I've ever been, where CryPeace means crying more tears and crying louder for justice than almost anywhere else. This week, as renewed tensions escalate over Jerusalem, my... more
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My cheeks hurt. Not because of dental surgery, but because I can't stop smiling. I just got back from the Friday the 13th motorcycle rally in Port Dover, Ontario. I can't believe I rode for years and never made it before. This time I took a day off work, grabbed my camera, and had a fabulous day! Peace overflows abundantly on days like today, when thousands of people — most of them strangers, in... more
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In my recent post, God has blessed us to bless others, I told you about meeting Ian and José Carlos on the beach while they were doing an environmental survey to track global warming. After talking for a little while about their project, I told them about my passion for peace, and the storytelling project that I was conducting around the world. When I asked Ian what peace mean to him, I was... more
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