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Reflecting on a Violent World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2019

Elena Procario-Foley
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Horizons , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , December 2019 , pp. v - vii
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Copyright © College Theology Society 2019

Middle Passage

Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, South Carolina

Armenian Genocide

Gilroy Garlic Festival, California

Sante Fe, Texas

Holodomor Famine-Genocide

Holocaust

Too long do I live among those who hate peace. Psalm 120:6

Christchurch, New Zealand, Mosques

Guatemalan/Mayan Genocide

Pulse Night Club, Orlando, Florida

El Paso, Texas

Bangladesh Genocide

Cambodian Genocide

Thus says the Lord: We hear a cry of fear: terror, not peace. Jeremiah 30:5

San Bernardino, California, Inland Regional Center

East Timor Genocide

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Kurdish Genocide

Native American Genocide

Colombo, Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalm 34:15

Rwandan Genocide

Dayton, Ohio

Capitol Gazette, Annapolis, Maryland

Bosnia-Herzegovina Genocide

Dafur Genocide

Chabad Center, Poway, California

When I speak of peace, they are for war. Psalm 120:7

Nuba Mountains, Sudan Genocide

Syrian Genocide

Northern Iraq Genocide

Aurora, Illinois

Central African Republic

Harvest Music Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada

Let us then pursue what leads to peace and to building up one another. Romans 14:19

Charlottesville, Virginia

Thousand Oaks, California

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tree of Life Synagogue

Zimbabwe Genocide

Every day, 310 people are shot in the United States; every year 113,108.

Observe the person of integrity and mark the upright; because there is a future for a man of peace. Psalm 37:37

Rohingya Genocide

Every day, 21 children and teens (1–17) are shot in the United States; every year 7,782.

Uighur Persecutions

First Nations/Aboriginal Genocides Worldwide

257 mass shootings in the USA in 2019 (as of October 1).

Tiananmen Square Massacre

The work of justice will be peace; the effect of justice, calm and security forever. Isaiah 32:17

And that is why I swore never to be silent.… When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy … Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe. —Elie Wiesel

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