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EMU Celebrates Life/Work of Tom Fox

March 16, 2006 by Jim Bishop

Lisa Schirch speaks at Tom’s memorial service Christian Peacemaker Team worker Tom Fox was eulogized in an on-campus memorial service Wednesday evening, Mar. 15, as an example of active love

Campus Responds to Death of Peace Worker Tom Fox

March 13, 2006 by Jim Bishop and Bonnie Lofton

News of the death of Tom Fox, 54, a Christian Peacemaking Team worker held hostage in Iraq, has been an especially difficult blow for those who knew him at Eastern

University Holds Second Vigil for Iraq Hostages

February 2, 2006 by Jim Bishop

“Rina Kashyap, a Fulbright student from India in the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, reflects on Canadian hostage Harmeet Singh Sooden at the prayer vigil. Photo by Jim Bishop Some

Vigil Planned For Former EMU Student Held Hostage In Iraq

January 30, 2006 by Rob Longley, Daily News-Record

“A tape broadcast Saturday threatened to kill four Christian peace activists unless all Iraqi prisoners are released from prisons in Iraq and the United States. The four (from left) are

Deadline Extension ‘A Good Sign’ For EMU-Connected Hostage

December 9, 2005 by Rob Longley, Daily News-Record

By Rob Longley, Daily News-Record Islamic militants holding former Eastern Mennonite University student Tom Fox and three other hostages in Iraq extended the deadline for the captives’ execution to Saturday,

Iraq Hostage Has EMU Connection

December 1, 2005Last updated September 18, 2014 by Jim Bishop

Participants reflect and pray on the EMU Campus Center plaza for the four Christian Peacemaker Team members being held hostage in Iraq. Photo by Jim Bishop A former student in