{"id":294559,"date":"2025-05-05T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=294559"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:58:30","slug":"support-nobel-peace-laureate-mairead-maguires-40-day-fast-for-palestinian-children-and-world-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/05\/support-nobel-peace-laureate-mairead-maguires-40-day-fast-for-palestinian-children-and-world-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire&#8217;s 40-Day Fast for Palestinian Children and World Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-copy what\">\n<div class=\"trix-content\">\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/write.as\/dianne-kirby\/statement-from-the-hunger-for-justice-campaign\" ><strong>Statement from the Hunger for Justice Campaign<\/strong><\/a> (English &amp; Arabic)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/new\/?p=36474\" ><strong><em>Culture of Peace News Network<\/em> article by Dianne Kirby<\/strong><\/a> (English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>Mairead&#8217;s choosing to fast and pray for 40 days is a form of creative nonviolent resistance infused with love, a cry from the heart that children should never more suffer war.<\/p>\n<p>Her sacrificial act of prophetic moral witness shows solidarity with the sorrow and pain of the most vulnerable. She used her body to make a penetrating public yet profoundly personal statement with echoes of spiritual protest, civil disobedience and a deep concern for human dignity.<\/p>\n<p>We the undersigned commend Mairead\u2019s courage, compassion and commitment. She is an inspiration. We join our voices and actions to hers to demand a world that rejects endless war and promotes equality, justice, peace, prosperity and love for all its children.<\/p>\n<p>\u0625\u0646 \u0627\u062e\u062a\u064a\u0627\u0631 \u0645\u064a\u0631\u064a\u062f \u0644\u0644\u0635\u0648\u0645 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0627\u0629 \u0644\u0645\u062f\u0629 40 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064b\u0627 \u0647\u0648 \u0634\u0643\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0634\u0643\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0648\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0628\u062f\u0627\u0639\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0634\u0628\u0639\u0629 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0628\u060c \u0648\u0635\u0631\u062e\u0629 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0644\u0628 \u0628\u0623\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u062c\u0628 \u0623\u0646 \u064a\u0639\u0627\u0646\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0637\u0641\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0648\u064a\u0644\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0631\u0628 \u0645\u0631\u0629 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ending the ceasefire without warning, resuming a policy of genocide and ethnic cleansing that has inflicted brutal levels of death and destruction on Gaza&#8217;s unarmed and defenceless civilian population, many of whom are children.<\/p>\n<p>Fearlessly calling out the impunity accorded Israel by many governments, including the United States, Britain and the European Union, who also provide money, arms and silent complicity, Mairead ceaselessly seeks to stop the madness of poverty, cruelty, militarism and war.<\/p>\n<p>\u064a\u064f\u0639\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0645\u0627\u064a\u0648 2025 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064b\u0627 \u0630\u0627 \u0623\u0647\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0643\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645 \u0648\u0646\u0634\u0637\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u060c \u062d\u064a\u062b \u064a\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u064a\u062f \u0645\u0646\u0647\u0645 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\u064a\u0633\u0627\u0647\u0645\u0648\u0646 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0648\u0627\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u0644\u062d\u0629 \u0648\u064a\u062a\u0648\u0627\u0637\u0624\u0648\u0646 \u0628\u0635\u0645\u062a\u060c \u062a\u0633\u0639\u0649 \u0645\u064a\u0631\u064a\u062f \u0628\u0644\u0627 \u0643\u0644\u0644 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0648\u0642\u0641 \u062c\u0646\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0642\u0631 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0642\u0633\u0648\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0633\u0643\u0631\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0631\u0628.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SIGN THE PETITION:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/my.uplift.ie\/petitions\/support-mairead-corrigan-s-40-day-fast-for-palestinian-children-and-world-peace?source=whatsapp-share-button&amp;utm_medium=myuplift&amp;utm_source=whatsapp&amp;share=8d638b0d-3f30-42a1-a77d-8b3e266708fb\" >https:\/\/my.uplift.ie\/petitions\/support-mairead-corrigan-s-40-day-fast-for-palestinian-children-and-world-peace?source=whatsapp-share-button&amp;utm_medium=myuplift&amp;utm_source=whatsapp&amp;share=8d638b0d-3f30-42a1-a77d-8b3e266708fb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mairead-maguire.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-294438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mairead-maguire-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mairead-maguire-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mairead-maguire.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of Peace People, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book, The Vision of Peace, (edited by John Dear with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wipfandstock.com\/\" ><em>www.wipfandstock.com<\/em><\/a><em>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peacepeople.com\/\" ><em>www.peacepeople.com<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mairead&#8217;s choosing to fast and pray for 40 days is a form of creative nonviolent resistance infused with love, a cry from the heart that children should never more suffer war.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":294438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[229,3287,2009,554,1777,1074,444,1243,427,119],"class_list":["post-294559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-activism","tag-anti-zionism","tag-anti-war","tag-children","tag-mairead-maguire","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-nonviolence","tag-nonviolent-action","tag-palestine","tag-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294564,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294559\/revisions\/294564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}