VIGIL for CPT Members in IRAQ

Hamiltonians who have had the privilege of working for peace with Jim Loney are inviting peace and faith communities to a
VIGIL FOR JIM LONEY AND FELLOW CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKER TEAM (CPT) WORKERS MISSING IN IRAQ
Wednesday, December 7, Pot luck 5:30 pm, Vigil 6:30pm
Quaker Meeting House, 7 Butty Place



Letter of Support for Missing Christian Peacemaker Team members in Iraq

December 02, 2005


Hamilton Action for Social Change (HASC) and Fathers' Day Coalition for Peace (FDC4P) wish to express their steadfast support for Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and their work of violence reduction in war zones.

From 1999 to 2001, members of CPT participated with HASC and FDC4P in the resistance to the use of war planes as family entertainment at the Hamilton International Air Show. The Air Show closed for good in 2001.

Participants of HASC and FDC4P express our sadness at hearing the news that CPT members Jim Loney and Tom Fox and CPT delegates Harmeet Sooden and Norman Kember are missing in Baghdad, Iraq. We along with many others wish for their safe return home and our hearts go out to their families.

We urge those who are holding the CPTers to treat them with dignity and with care for their safety. We ask for CPT's partners in the region to convince those holding the CPTers to release them immediately.

We agree with CPT's consistent opposition to both the war and the continuing presence of foreign forces of recolonization in Iraq.

We pray for the safe return of all who have been kidnapped in Iraq and for liberation with justice of the Iraqi people.



Murray D. Lumley, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Randy Kay, Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Beatrice Ekoko, Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Andrew Loucks, Hamilton, Ontario Canada
John Milton, Hamilton, Ontario Canada
Michelle Cho, Toronto, Ontario
David Jefferess, Kelowna, B.C., Canada
Scott Neigh, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Rabea Murtaza, Toronto, Ontario, Canada