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Weaving Relationships: Canada-Guatemala Solidarity (Comparative Ethics)

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Weaving Relationships tells the remarkable, little-known story of a movement that transcends barriers of geography, language, culture, and economic disparity.

The story begins in the early 1980s, when 200,000 Maya men, women, and children crossed the Guatemalan border into Mexico, fleeing genocide by the Guatemalan army and in quest of refuge. A decade later, among the refugees returned to their place of birth at the side of 140 Canadians, members of “Project Accompaniment”. The Canadians were there, by their side, to provide companionship and, more significantly, as an act of solidarity.

Weaving Relationships describes the historical roots of this solidarity that specialize in the Maya in Guatemala. It relates the story of “Project Accompaniment” and two of its founders in Canada, the Christian Task Force on Central The usa and the Maritimes-Guatemala “Breaking the Silence” Network. It reveals solidarity’s have an effect on on the Canadians and Guatemalans whose lives have been changed by the experience of relationships across borders. It presents solidarity not as a work of charity aside from or “for” them but as a bond of mutuality, of friendship and common struggle with those people who are marginalized, excluded, and impoverished in this world.

This book speaks of a spirituality based on community and justice, and challenges the church to move beyond its preoccupation with its own survival to solidarity with those people who are suffering. This is a book about hope in the face of death and despair.

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