– February 20, 2014 –

WASHINGTON – Ecumenical Advocacy Days for Global Peace with Justice (EAD) is thrilled to announce keynote speakers for its 2014 Sunday morning “Action” plenary on March 23rd as part of its 12th Annual National Gathering in Washington, D.C.  The theme for the 2014 gathering is Jesus Weeps: Resisting Violence, Building Peace.  Early registration for the event is now available through Friday, March 21st  here.  The Sunday morning plenary is entitled “Transforming Violence: Guide Our Feet into the Path of Peace.” Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith (pictured) of the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis will moderate the international panel featuring representatives from Prince George’s County, Maryland, the American Friends Service Committee, the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement from Sri Lanka, and a pastor and professor from Alaska. As people of hope, we are consoled by the promise that “justice and peace shall embrace” (Psalm 85:10), and are reminded that justice requires peace-making and that peace requires justice-making.  During the Sunday morning plenary, EAD participants will confront and imagine how to transform the violence in our world, and speakers will provide a vision of peace in the community, peace among the peoples, peace in the marketplace, and peace with the earth.  The process and formulation that will be engaged is from the World Council of Churches’ “Ecumenical Call to Just Peace” issued prior to its International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in 2011.

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