CELEBRATING

Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) has been selected as the 2023 recipients of the Community of Christ and Shaw Family Foundation’s International Peace Award. Said an announcement from CPT: “The award recognizes our commitment to transformative nonviolence for over 35 years, honoring our diversity in representation of ethnicity, gender, and faith and our common struggle for abolishing poverty and ending human suffering…. CPT joins a long list of awardees that includes Leymah Gbowee, Dolores Huerta and Father Virgilio Elizondo, to name a few. CPT will receive the award during the Community of Christ World Conference in April 2023.” Read the full press release at www.cpt.org/2022/09/08/community-peacemaker-teams-recipients-of-the-international-peace-award-2023. [from Newsline]