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Drone Assassination Awareness Week in Wellington

DRONE ASSASSINATION AWARENESS WEEK Six days and nights of fasting and prayer in solidarity with drone assassination victims and families. We will be exploring gentleness, vulnerability, prayer and enemy love in the service of a non-violent engagement with the discipleship queries of our age. PRAYER RHYTHMS Starting on every second hour (8am, 10am, 12pm, etc.) all day and all night, there will be a short prayer liturgy for about 15 minutes. In the times between prayer, we will do Christian meditation, Taize, reading and discussion of peace texts, etc. You are welcome to join the bus at any time, day or night. To find out the location of the bus, text 022 1600 751 or check our facebook page, facebook.com/stopdroneassassinations/ To conclude the week, a propitiatory* offering of blood will be made to the GCSB, as we call for them to take our blood instead. *Definition: to sacrifice something in order to stop something else being taken Come and join our inclusive community of peace and love; remembering in prayer all the victims of drone assassination, war, rendition, torture, and whistle-blowers and peacemakers everywhere. Bring contributions to the peace shrine and thoughts towards the clarification of enemy love. All welcome

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