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Life Stories

Stories of ordinary people making a world of difference in their own lives and those around them.

Reconciliation sealed with a handshake

Son of globetrotting Chief Walking Buffalo, Bill, travelled the world with a message of reconciliation and healing as part of his participation in MRA (Moral Re-Armament, now known as Initiatives of Change).

Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which clings fast to the heel that crushed it

Fesseha Fre Weri, a Canadian originally from Eritrea, tells of the choice he was faced with as a young man - to take up a gun or work for peace. He was speaking in Caux, Switzerland in 2003.