Christmas can create peace. The experts at an international
\nadvertising agency. They were working on behalf of the Colombian government. And
\nmade the longing of many people for a peaceful and jointly celebrated
\nChristmas to make the armed fighters in the Colombian jungle,
\nto lay down their arms, the advertising experts called \"Operation Christmas\", the \"Rivers
\nof Light\" and \"Operation Bethlehem\".<\/p>\n
They sent the advertisers in unusual ways during the Advent season for several years
\nMessages to the armed men and women in the jungle that convince them
\nshould: \"Come home! Lay down your weapons before Christmas!\"
\nIn the first year, trees over 20 metres tall were decorated with countless lights.
\ndirectly on the paths used by the rebels. Banners bore the inscription:
\n\"If Christmas can come to the jungle, you can come home too
\ncome!\"<\/p>\n
More than 300 rebels are said to have responded to this call and left the jungle. In
\nanother year, over 6,000 Christmas tree baubles were placed in the river, in which
\nhandwritten messages and personalised gifts from family and friends,
\nfrom the water directly towards the rebel camps. Then there was this
\nstrong beam of light that reached far into the sky, shining brightly from various
\nvillages, from Macarena, from EL Paujil, from Toribio. Those who have not yet left the jungle
\nwho didn't know the way, could now set off. All he had to do was
\nPut your head back and walk towards the light. And this action also had a
\nMotto: \"Anything is possible at Christmas.\" The message was well received. A few years later
\nthe President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
\nfor his unusual and successful ways of silencing the guns.<\/p>\n
Iris Macke<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Weihnachten kann Frieden schaffen. Davon waren die Fachleute einer internationalen Werbeagentur \u00fcberzeugt. Sie arbeiteten im Auftrag der kolumbianischen Regierung. Und machten die Sehnsucht vieler Menschen nach einem friedlichen und gemeinsam gefeierten Weihnachten zu ihrer Mission.Um die bewaffneten K\u00e4mpfer im kolumbianischen Dschungel dazu zu bringen, ihre Waffen niederzulegen, riefen die Werbefachleute die \u201eOperation Christmas\u201c, die Kampagne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lions-peace-bench.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}