Today is the first day of Week 2- blessed are those who mourn. I chose the activity: A Panoramic View. In this activity, I viewed the University of Heidelberg's Global Conflict Panorama (GCP). I decided to focus my prayers for the week on Mexico. I chose Mexico because it a neighboring county to my county, but is on the list of severe conflicts. The GCP examples that the Mexican Drug Cartel is the biggest cause for the violence in the country. Thousands of people die or "disappear" in the county each year. The GCP was created in 2008. I wanted to see if the information was still current, so I went to CNN.com and searched Mexico. Turns out Mexico is still experiences the violence described on the GCP site. On CNN there is an article from yesterday that describes the death of a newspaper vendor and a police officer. The man arrested for killing the newspaper vendor said he was paid $250 to do it. $250! How could you think a life if worth so little? And how desperate do you have to be to kill for only $250. The other murder, was the shooting of a police officer. The man was shot 15 times when his patrol car stopped at a red light. According to the newspaper article over 100 police officers were killed last year in Mexico. Today I am going to pray for the people in Mexico who are desperate and for the Mexican police officers who knowing put their lives in danger every day.