Wednesday, May 14, 2008
GATE Retreat: Oct 26-Nov 1, 2008
In the 21st century as more and more people are evolving into a deeper longing to honor our oneness as a global community, we are increasingly aware that we are truly all indigenous people of this one earth.
For the past 25 years, people touching people cross-culturally and people knowing people compassionately has been facilitated by traveling with GATE: Global Awareness Through Experience. GATE offers international immersion opportunities to fire the spirituality of solidarity within hearts and lives. For the thousands of participants who have traveled with GATE through the years, hearts and lives are forever expanded and changed.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
GATE Renewal 2008
Those who travel the globe with GATE are on a quest--a quest to understand why the suffering of our world is so great; why women's experience has been so diminished and forgotten; how can we fashion a spirituality for transformation. This weekend retreat will invite you to engage your experience of these realities in the context of the Great Turning, the Chaos Point, and the New Story so as to be more aware of the cultural shift in which we are participating. Believing that the next stage of transformation calls women and men to become mystics, Nancy will explore how communal contemplation opens us to see more clearly who we are and to imagine how we must be and act to further the transformation of our planet and our species. The time together will integrate process and presentation. The participants will experience communal contemplation and learn the skills of deepening conversation.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Check out Kirkridge Retreat Center
Since 1942, Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center has been providing a place for rest and renewal to pilgrims along life’s journey. It is located on the beautiful Kittatinny Ridge of eastern Pennsylvania near the Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono Mountains region. Their retreats, hospitality, beautiful vistas and sacred ground have blessed and continue to bless countless lives.
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008
New section on our web site allows you to keep up with current news from abroad.
Monday, Mar 10, 2008
A Perspective on Immigration
In a recent publication Marie Des Jarlais, FSPA, has written on the immigration debate. She shares her experience on the economic and political realities of immigration. Click here to read the article.
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008
GATE Renewal 2008: October 24-26, 2008
Those who travel the globe with GATE are on a quest--a quest to understand why the suffering of our world is so great; why women's experience has been so diminished and forgotten; how can we fashion a spirituality for transformation. This weekend retreat will invite you to engage your experience of these realities in the context of the Great Turning, the Chaos Point, and the New Story so as to be more aware of the cultural shift in which we are participating. Believing that the next stage of transformation calls women and men to become mystics, Nancy will explore how communal contemplation opens us to see more clearly who we are and to imagine how we must be and act to further the transformation of our planet and our species. The time together will integrate process and presentation. The participants will experience communal contemplation and learn the skills of deepening conversation.
Please contact: christinecenter@ceas.coop for registration.
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2007
Guatemala Holy Week; March 12-22, 2008
The streets of Antigua light up with color during the Holy Week processions. Spend the first part of this 10-day trip learning about the history, economics, politics and current reality of Guatemala before immersing yourself in the beautiful celebrations.
Thursday, Sep 6, 2007
Walk For Justice
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Friday, Jun 1, 2007
El Salvador Blog
Journey to El Salvador this June, without ever leaving your desk! Simply go here to experience the El Salvador GATE trip with writer Charish Badzinski in a day-by-day account of her experiences.
It’s the next best thing to actually going on a GATE trip!
A freelance writer, magazine editor, and published travel writer based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Charish Badzinski will post regular updates throughout the trip from June 12-21, 2007.
Please share this information with your friends and family members who are interested in learning more about the world around them!
Thursday, Apr 19, 2007
Take Action against Rios Montt
Guatemala Human Rights Comission (GHRC) is asking you to take urgent action. Pundits call on Guatemalans to forget the past and move forward. But to truly move forward, to have true reconciliation, and to foster a true adherence to the rule of law, General Ríos Montt and others must be brought to justice for their crimes committed during the civil war.
Please click on this link (http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=4109) to sign the international petition to be sent to Guatemalan President Oscar Berger so that the case against Ríos Montt and others may move forward and to prevent Ríos Montt from gaining immunity.
Unless we take action today, the victims of Guatemala’s thirty-six year blood bath may loose another chance to obtain justice for the loss of their loved ones. Thank you for your time and solidarity with our Guatemalan sisters and brothers.
Please click on this link (http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=4109) to sign the international petition to be sent to Guatemalan President Oscar Berger so that the case against Ríos Montt and others may move forward and to prevent Ríos Montt from gaining immunity.
Unless we take action today, the victims of Guatemala’s thirty-six year blood bath may loose another chance to obtain justice for the loss of their loved ones. Thank you for your time and solidarity with our Guatemalan sisters and brothers.
To learn more about this subject, click here.
Monday, Apr 16, 2007
Need Coffee?
If you would like to support the indigenous effort to produce and sell their own coffee, we suggest you buy from Juan Ana. 100% of the proceeds go to the growers, you can't get any more fair trade than that! For those of you travelers that have visited the San Lucas Toliman Mission with us, you know what a difference it makes for the people--and how good it is! Here is the link to order and learn more: http://www.juananacoffee.com/
Thursday, Mar 8, 2007
Menchu Seeks Presidency
Indigenous activist, Rigoberta Menchu says she will run for president in Guatemala's elections this September.
She will stand for a coalition of the indigenous party Winaq, which she founded earlier this month, and the left-wing Encounter for Guatemala.
If elected, she will become the first president from Guatemala's indigenous Maya community.
Thursday, Mar 8, 2007
Survivor of El Mozote Massacre Passes
Rufina Amaya, human rights activist and survivor of the El Mozote Massacre passed on Tuesday March 6, 2007 due to heart failure. She was a mother, grandmother, friend and hero to many.
In 1981 an SOA-trained Salvadoran army battalion known as the Atlacatl Battalion swept through the region of Morazon in a campaign to root out guerillas and their sympathizers. In a shocking turn of events, nearly one thousand peasants were slaughtered in the village of El Mozote.
As the sole survivor, Rufina's brave testimony of the massacre shed light on the atrocities committed by the Salvadoran military and uncovered the Reagan administration's role in providing training and millions of dollars in military aid to a government with a complete disregard for human rights.
The Atlacatl Battalion continued to commit atrocities in El Salvador, including the murder of six Jesuit priests and two Salvadoran women at the University of Central America on November 16, 1989.
"God saved me because he needed someone to tell the story of what happened." Rufina Amaya continued to be an outspoken and compelling witness to what may have been the largest massacre in modern Latin American history until the day of her death.
Rufina's legacy will live on in the hearts of the people of Latin America and the world.
Friday, Feb 23, 2007
A Dishonor to Romero
On Janurary 31, 2007 ARENA legislatures presented a piece of legislation that would honor Roberto D'Abuisson, who many know to be the killer of Archbishop Romero.
To learn more about this click here.
Tuesday, Feb 6, 2007
Reflections of a traveler
Mary Bart participated on a Women's Spiritual Quest to Mexico in January of 2006. Following the experience, she felt moved to return to a women's clinic in Mexico City's suburbs to educate the women and men on her knowledge of Myofascial Release techniques.
To read Mary's reflection, click here.
Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007
Tragic Loss of Safe Passage Director, Hanley Denning
GATE has recieved tragic news of the loss of Hanley Denning, founder of Project Safe Passage in Guatemala. The mothers and children of the dump have lost a real friend. Some of you may have met Hanley personally when we visited Project Safe Passsage in the Guatemala City dump. Others of you only heard about her heart being so touched by the plight of the single mothers and their children who lived and worked in the dump where Hanley found her unique mission in life. Her short time in Guatemala has made a significant difference. We know that Hanley is at peace, but we ask for consolation and peace for Hanley's family in Maine, and all of the people she worked with and served in Guatemala.
For more information on her life, please see this article from her hometown paper.
Visit their site to learn more about Project Safe Passage.
Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007
GATE Charitable Giving
Beginning in November of 2006 GATE Charitable Giving has received more than $12,000.00 in donations and we are grateful for every dollar! These donations not only represent a high level of compassion and commitment by many of the past GATE participants, they are the means to a brighter future for countless individuals in Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala. This is an exciting time, and GATE is thrilled to embark upon the task of facilitating the fulfillment of dreams.
Over the past five months, since the inception of GATE Charitable Giving, we have come to the realization that part of the ministry of GATE is to ask questions. These questions are meant to be a catalyst of forming deeper solidarity. How are we connected? How does my life affect the life of another 3,000 miles away? How does the sense of joy transcend all cultures?
Building from this sense of solidarity and our nature of asking questions, GATE Charitable Giving asks, "What are your dreams?" Dreams are critical aspects of being human Dreams take us to tomorrow through imagination, creativity and motivation. We all have drams, and GATE Charitable Giving is a vehicle to unify common dreams. It is a bridge between the young women who want to attend medical school in Mexico and the couple in the United States who dream about a world that cares about the education of all.
Our dream is to simply fulfill the hopes of those in need and those who want to provide. We do this with compassionate, knowledgeable staff, with unwavering commitment to both donors and donees, with the guarantee that 100% of each donation will be used to make a difference in the lives of the poor, and accomplishing even the smallest tasks with a sense of humility, gratitude and enduring joy!
What are your dreams?
Donations are acccepted anytime throughout the year. To learn more about GATE Charitable Giving, click here.
Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007
Quest for Black Madonna to Central France
GATE is proud to introduce our newest pilgrimage, Quest for the Black Madonna.
A message from the director:
The Quest for the Black Madonna draws me now to Central France where I delight in quaint villages, elegant Paris, and the joy of journeying with spirited companions. All this enhances the pilgrimage but does not distract me from the question that still begs an answer: Why the Black Madonna? This pilgrim seeks the sacred in what has been banished. Together we bring her out of the dusty niches and examine her darknress in the light of day. Hold before us all our own dark energy and honor the Black Madonna both in ourselves and in the mystery of what is. We travel through a land that is not our own and learn to be stretched by the unfamiliar. We mingle with people for whom we are the stranger and kneel in their holy places to find a living light for the world.
A pilgrimage stretches and changes, heals and strengthens the pilgrim. If you are ready for such a journey, I look forward to sharing the road with you.
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