Lausanne World Pulse – Themed Articles – Actions for Peace in Colombia: Hope in the Face of Roaring Conflict
With actions such as these, the Church and the Body of Christ in Colombia can help restore hope to the death-ridden reality Colombia is facing.
Endnotes
1. Banco de Datos de Derechos Humanos y Violencia Política (5 May 2006), Casos Noche y Niebla No. 32, Bogotá.
2. New Colombia News Agency.
3. Hacia una Política Proactiva para la Población Desplazada, Bogotá, Conferencia Episcopal Colombiana.
4. UN News Service.
5. Luis Carlos Narváez Tulcán.
6. Michael Joseph. Patterns of Violence and Displacement.
7. http://cdpsanjose.org/node/10
8. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Revolutionary Armed Foces of Colombia, the largest leftist guerrilla group.
9. http://www.cocoo.org
10. Serie Experiencias Locales en la Construcción de la Paz, Justapaz, Lutheran World Relief, 2006.
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Grace Morillo serves as a missionary with the Latin America Mission, seconded to Unidad Cristiana Universitaria, where she works as general secretary. She lives in Bogotá, Colombia, and attends Aposento Alto Church, a Free Brethren Assembly, and serves on the board of the Colombian Federation of Evangelical Churches (CEDECOL). Morillo was born in Pasto, Colombia. |