International peace activists, Scott Schaeffer-Duffy and Brenna Cussen, talk about their recent trip to the Middle East as part of a Catholic Worker Peace Team. Co-sponsors of this event: The Peace Abbey, Metrowest Peace Action, St. Theresas Social Justice Committee. Scott Schaeffer-Duffy is founder and co-director with his wife, award-winning journalist Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, of the Catholic Worker Community in Worcester. Catholic Workers spend their lives doing works of mercy and taking actions of protest and resistance to war and social injustice. Scott and Claire founded their House over twenty years ago, and are the parents of four children. Brenna Cussen, a fellow Catholic Worker, has traveled to Israel, and to the West Bank where she lived for three months as part of the Michigan Peacemakers Team, as well as to Darfur, Sudan. She has written for and has edited the Catholic Peace Fellowship Newsletter. She holds a Master's Degree in Peace Studies. Pax Christi USA commits itself to peace education and promotes the gospel imperative of peacemaking as a priority in the Catholic Church in the U.S. as well as internationally. Through the efforts of all its members and in cooperation with other groups, Pax Christi USA works toward a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. For more information about Pax Christi USA, visit www.paxchristiusa.org. Questions? Contact: Judith Rich, judithrich@hotmail.com 508- 653-0893, or Faith Madzar, fmadzar@gmail.com, 508-655-0268 Violence ends where love begins. Violence ends where love begins. Violence ends where love begins.
Pax Christi Metrowest invites you to attend aPeacemakers Report From Palestine/Israel
Peacemakers Report From Palestine/Israel
Submitted by ujpadmin on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 9:44pm.
When: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 6:45 pm
to 9:00 pm
Where: Morse Institute Library • 14 East Central Street • Natick
2009 Jun 24 - 6:45pm
2009 Jun 24 - 9:00pm
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