Christian Peacemaker Teams

“The Miracle of Las Pavas”

Community Resistance, Palm, and Displacement.

An International delegation to Colombia

Organized by the Christian Peacemaker Teams

Join the Christian Peacemaker Teams  to see the Miracle of Las Pavas! 

May 30^th to June 12, 2013

FUNDRAISING EXPECTATION: $2600 US / $2700 Canadian, which includes round-trip airfare from a designated U.S. or Canadian city.

For more info, contact CPT at  www.cpt.org, 773-376-0550, or delegations@cpt.org

In Colombia, since 1964 an counterinsurgency war has left over 200,000 people dead and displaced over four million others from their homes. CPT's Colombia delegations will meet with church, human rights and social justice organizers in Bogotá and in Barrancabermeja, the industrial city in the Magdalena Medio region where CPT's full-time team has been based since 2001. Delegates will spend several days visiting one or more rural communities struggling for justice, peace and sustainable life on the land.

The special focus of the delegation will be the community of Las Pavas, a community that has been in a nonviolent struggle to return to their land. They were displaced multiply times and most recently by a palm oil company. While the upper levels of government certainly have made decisions that seem to favor the community, the facts on the ground are far less encouraging. The community is still at risk, their crops and fences are being destroyed, and the leaders are still receiving threats. ASOCAB members "have hope that the journey ahead will be positive, and that we may finally obtain what they have called "The Miracle of Las Pavas." Join us to see this Miracle!