When I recently arrived in South Africa at the end of January to join my husband for a few months while he is on a temporary deployment with his job for USAID, I wondered how I would spend my time - what I would learn and whom I would learn it from. One thing I knew almost the first day I arrived is that I wanted to learn more about the concept of Ubuntu.

Our Peace Catalyst team in Seattle recently hosted its first live peacemaking event in over two years. Two local churches combined their efforts to host the local Uyghur American community in a community-wide Listening Event on the last day of the Winter Olympics. The timing was in solidarity to the worldwide Uyghur community whose concerns about holding an Olympic games in a nation where genocide is happening in real time were ignored by the IOC.

The CIA used evil tactics in their attempt to defeat evil. So the war on terror became the war of terror. In doing so, the United States lost any high moral ground that we might have had. We also lost credibility with the Muslim community – a key resource to help us topple terrorism.

Why Christians should stand up for the religious freedom of Muslims and others.