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Emmanuel Jal

September 18, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Emmanuel Jal giving a peace sign in his "We Want Peace" video

Forced to become a soldier as a child in Sudan, Emmanuel Jal was eventually rescued. He now uses his experience to deliver a message of peace through music.

Filed Under: Africa, WORLD REGION

Anthony Fabrice Kettemallet

February 23, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Anthony Fabrice Kettemallet

Meet Anthony Fabrice Kettemallet, a young human rights activist in the Central African Republic who founded the organization Bird of Peace.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Boaz Keibarak

February 23, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Boaz Keibarak

Meet Boaz Keibarak, a Kenyan peace-builder who mediated the warring Pokot and Turkana communities. He founded Kingdom of Peace and Development.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Lance Muteyo

February 23, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Lance Muteyo

Meet Lance Muteyo, a young Zimbabwean peacemaker who finds creative implementations of conflict resolution and various types of activism.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Wilson Thiongo Gathungu

February 16, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Wilson Gathungu

Wilson Gathungu is a Kenyan peacemaker who works to resolve inter-tribal violence in Kenya through peace-building and reconciliation training programs.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, North America, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Wangari Muta Maathai (1940–2011)

February 9, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and women’s rights activist whose leadership played a major role in ending the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi.

Filed Under: Africa, WORLD REGION

King Negus Ashama ibn Abjar of Abyssinia (d. 630)

February 1, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Obelisk of Axum

Ashama ibn Abjar was a 7th-century Christian king of Axum (part of modern-day Ethiopia) who provided refuge to Arab Muslims fleeing religious persecution.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Adel Imam (b. 1940) & Omar Sharif (b. 1932)

January 26, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Adel Imam and Omar Sharif

Actors Adel Imam and Omar Sharif starred in the 2008 film “Hassan and Morcos,” which stirred controversy for honestly exposing religious tensions in Egypt.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Christian De Chergé (1937-1996)

January 19, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

Christian de Chergé

Christian de Chergé was a Trappist monk and martyr who prayed alongside Muslim friends and neighbors in Algeria, and was originally inspired to spirituality by a Muslim friend who saved his life.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) and al-Malik al-Kamil (1180-1238)

January 5, 2015 by Daniel Buttry

The Meeting of St. Francis and al-Kamil

Amid the horrors of the Crusades, Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil dared to cross battle lines. After a week of talks, they parted as friends.

Filed Under: Africa, Christianity, Europe, Islam, SPIRITUALITY, WORLD REGION

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