The National Religious Campaign Against Torture has created the following resource on torture for the Advent season:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dm4a6FwLs%2FXfsiU...

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has welcomed the Colombian Supreme Court’s decision to allow Colombians to opt out of obligatory military service because of religious, moral, or philosophical objections.

Colombian pastor speaks in Wisconsin on peacemaking amid civil war

by Lisa Strandberg

PPF was among the many signatories from Religious, Human Rights, and Academic organizations who sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, opposing recent negotiations for U.S. military access to seven military bases in Colombia.

Read the Letter (pdf)

Check this document to see if an International Peacemaker is coming to your Presbytery.

by Jim Atwood

Join our sisters and brothers in Colombia in weekly prayers for peace.

Tell Secretary Clinton you don't want military bases in Colombia!

The plan to increase the U.S. military's presence on Colombian bases is the wrong plan, and it is provoking intense opposition in Colombia and the rest of South America. The plan would prolong the failed drug war, expand the war within Colombia that has caused such suffering, destabilize already tense regional relations, create incentives for an arms race, and violate Colombian sovereignty through immunity for U.S. soldiers' crimes. It would also violate the Colombian constitution, which prohibits the presence of foreign soldiers except in transit (and even then only if approved by the Colombian senate).