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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Running for Reconciliation in Jerusalem</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Three thousand years of history in three-and-a-half hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the plan, anyway.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Please sponsor us to run the first ever Jerusalem Marathon on 25<sup>th</sup> March 2011 in aid of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East (FRRME).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll take an interesting route through an interesting city for an interesting cause.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As events unfold across the Middle East, the need for this work will only increase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please give generously to enable Peter, the good Canon and all the team to pursue this most important work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There is nowhere in the world that better illustrates the destructive power of religious conflict than Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mercy and holiness often seem absent from the wars waged in the Holy Land in the name of God the Most Merciful.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Strong feelings about the conflict centred on this city radiate out across the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems apt, therefore, to ‘Run for Reconciliation’ here, in Jerusalem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">FRRME exists to promote conflict resolution and reconciliation in the Middle East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We specialise in conflict where there is a religious component to the violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also provide humanitarian relief and economic rejuvenation in areas where conflict has caused poverty and hardship.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">At present most of our work is focussed on Iraq.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some exciting things are happening and you can find out more at <a href="http://www.frrme.org/"><span style="color: blue;">www.frrme.org</span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if you’d like to subscribe to our news updates, email us at <a href="mailto:office@frrme.org"><span style="color: blue;">office@frrme.org</span></a>. </span></p>
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