WSCF Global Prayer for The Middle East

To you Almighty God we pray

For you have suffered on the cross and knew what it’s like to suffer

Comfort the mothers of the martyrs in our countries and especially Syria, Iraq and Palestine Comfort those who are enduring injustice upon claiming their rights in having a decent life

To you Almighty God we pray

To soothe the pain of our brothers and sisters, men and women, elders and kids who suffer on a daily basis

To give strength to the kidnapped ones, those who will no longer feel the warmth of their homes

To help those who bear the scars of painful memories in both their souls and bodies

Almighty God

Come rest among us and between us, in the hope that the homeless will find their way back

Guide us and lead us on this rough road, for we willingly had left everything behind to face our tomorrow We pray for you with all the faith we’ve got, hoping that you build in each heart an immortal altar instead of all the destroyed churches

King of peace

Let your peace reign on our region so we live as one in harmony, peace and love, as you are one with your Father and Holy Spirit

Amen

Statement of Faith

by Pip Sides

I try to live a faith that is Christian in love, Buddhist in compassion, Muslim in Prayer, Jewish in mysticism

Sikh in Service

Marxist in Equality

Hindu in Inclusivisity

Ba'Hai in Nationalism

Pagan in Nature

Dionysian in worship

Zoroastrian in Fire

Our Prophets spoke of Love, with the wisdom from above, The Earth is bleeding, its time for healing, we are one human race, so look beyond my face, Separation is just an illusion Now its time for fusion.

France the Land of Liberty, needs to respect her minority

Sarkozy thinks its OK to send the Roma away;

But that is not the way, we want to behave; Belgium Brussels your the HQ. Romanian People we love you; If you crave a gloomy hour, Read a little Schopenhauer, Germany's got Marx and Nietzsche

An explosion in my head something to free me, Czech's got Prague and Kafka

Slovakia's got the Tatras; Macedonia has poetry I want to know more; Thank you to the Latvian who opened our door, Britain's got royalty and afternoon tea, Italy Berlusconi, will they ever be free?

Iceland has beauty but she ran out of Cash Banks asked for it back and she sent them ASH Bosnia gave us such hospitality; Thank you all for listening to me'.

Composed with inspiration of Grégoire Vuilleumier at the [EYCE/FEMYSO] Fundamentalism or Responsible Citizenship conference, Sarajevo 2010.

Philip Sheridan Sides (Pip). Pip is an Irish artist, exhibiting professionally since 1997. Pip is currently a student in the Drumshambo School of Traditional Irish Music . Pip loves the bodhran, tin whistle, sea kayaking, and poetry. Pip runs photography workshops and exhibits internationally. Pip is proprietor of his start up; Wild Atlantic Way Photo Tours- Adventures with Diego Trotsky on the longest charted coastal drive in THE WORLD!

Dan Bassett (England)

I look to create an unnatural juxtaposition between the images used in this work to create something that is fantastical. Collage is a technique used by many artists to reappropriate images to give them newly defined meaning. This is a process that I believe has many parallels between the content of the magazine and my style of illustrating it. The images created through this process are further manipulated and broken - through changing the computer language that the image is made up of. The finalised images contain the original juxtapositions in combination with the computer ‘reading’ the new language and as such, I hope represents the difficulty within understanding new and foreign ideas. Conflict, accident and beautiful chance make up these images much like the defining forces that influence our lives.

Dan Bassett is a 90's kid and creative from the South West of England, currently operating out of Brighton. Dan tries to explore processes in order to create artwork. IG _dan_bas