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When children run
In most places, children running signals joy. Here in occupied Palestine, it is often a sign that the army is nearby. This sight is common in and around the old city of Hebron/Al-Khail. On Saturdays, when the nearby settlers come to ‘tour’ the old city, the children run away together as the army arrives. The […]
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A theology of migration
On August 15, the second annual Friends Across Borders run took place in Douglas, AZ, and Agua Prieta, Sonora. People gathered on both sides of the border for a 5K run, to listen to elders share memories of the border from earlier times, and to celebrate at the wall with music, art, and food. The […]
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What has CPT accomplished?
I often get asked, “What has CPT accomplished?” This is a fair question as we celebrate forty years, especially when most organisations measure their work through outcomes. At CPT, however, we challenge the assumptions of this question because we believe transformation originates with our partners—CPT is a guest in the struggle. As we celebrate forty […]
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Travelling doesn’t erase home
What if the most painful displacement is not leaving home, but returning to discover that the place you love is slowly being made to forget you?
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And then, hope
If there is one comic strip I remember from childhood, it is the one of Mafalda giving an aspirin to the globe after watching the news on TV. That image has stayed with me over the years; this summer, it has been present every morning. Several earthquakes have struck different countries, leaving thousands dead and […]
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Walls
After a CPT delegation in the US-Mexico Borderlands, David Leaman joined our team in Palestine. In both places, he came across oppressive dividing walls. Here, he reflects on their role as colonial tools, and the common call of CPT in different parts of the world to dissolve them.
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