3/12/08; http://www.mmiets.org.au/ (3 Items)
In a building near the Dili Cathedral, Fr Flavie Villaneuva SVD and Sister Wendy Mea OP work with a small staff in the Justice and Peace Commission set up by Bishop Belo after his Nobel Peace Prize.
Their main current work is in “Active Non-Violence” where they work with 17 of the 23 gangs in Dili. The programme is based on a Philippines model and focuses on dialogue. They have ANV training of between 3 and 7 days and 4000 people have done this training, divided between parish workers, Internally Displaced Persons and staff of the Diocese. The success of their work they believe is seen in the response of the gangs to the events of February 11, where the gang leaders rang in to the Commission expressing their concern and frustration, and through dialogue decided not to take violent measures in response to the attacks on the President and Prime Minister.
- Anniversary: Santa Cruz; Joao Parada Ferreira; November 12th in the year 1991:
The world can see now and know
what happened in a small land named Timor-Leste, in a place named Santa Cruz, now so famous.
In that year
The story of Timor-Leste spread all around the world, the story of the little people, the innocents who are gone.
We offer our suffering to our Lord Father.
Santa Cruz, you are the paper
upon which is written the story of Timor as witness to the world:
from the dripping blood to those missing ones for whom today there is still no grave.
Santa Cruz
There are no other stories,
only stories about our lives.
Santa Cruz, from you we transmit the true story to the world.
But today for ourselves, we still seek the right way. Santa Cruz, how can we send the message of the soul of Timor
unless we dedicate ourselves to our country?
See: http://www.etan.org/timor/SntaCRUZ.htm; http://easttimorlegal.blogspot.com/2008/11/anniversary-of-santa-cruz-massacre.html
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