http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?NewsSectionId=36 Bondare 3.0 RSSBuilder 2013-05-22T07:01:06Z Josephine Siedlecka info@indcatholicnews.com http://www.indcatholicnews.com The copyright in all content provided in this syndicated feed is held by Independent Catholic News. Any unauthorized use of material contained in this RSS may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity & communications regs http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22570 2013-05-19T15:00:20Z 2013-05-19T15:00:20Z More than 30 students and staff from a ministerial training college have protested outside a factory which makes engines for unmanned flying bombs. The group from The Queen's Foundation gathered at the Shenstone UAV Engine Factory on Friday 10th May to warn the military that the use of their drones to terrify and kill people in Pakistan is creating a surge in support for the Taliban. "It is obvious, when you pause to think", said Rev Chris Aldridge, "There are three sons and a little sister in a family. One of the sons and their sister http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22563 2013-05-17T16:41:34Z 2013-05-17T16:41:34Z With 2013 marking Pax Christi Metro New York’s 30th year of peacemaking, PCMNY is very proud to announce this year’s honorees and to celebrate not only their accomplishments but also what they stand for. This year’s Peacemakers are exceptional in their commitment to victims of crime, poverty, and war and their resolve to offer compassionate alternatives inspired by their faith. On Sunday, 19 May, Pax Christi Metro New York (PCMNY) will be paying tribute to Sr Janet Kinney, CSJ; David L.Maloof; and Judy Lewis. http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22559 2013-05-16T13:59:20Z 2013-05-16T13:59:20Z Members of Pax Christi, Coventry RC Deanery Justice and Peace Group and Coventry University Dept of Peace and Reconciliation protested outside Coventry Cathedral today, 16 May, before the Annual General Meeting of the City Council. Coventry Council is one of the seven West Midlands Councils that pays into the West Midlands Pension Fund, that has investments in several firms that are involved in the arms trade. These include: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, EADS, Thales and Halliburton. Ann Farr http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22557 2013-05-16T12:17:22Z 2013-05-16T12:17:22Z Dear Pope Francis, Whether this letter will ever reach you I have no idea, but it is worth trying to contact you. As an ordinary Catholic I wish you well in the great task to which you have been called. You are in the prayers of millions who need your leadership in this, our poverty and war-torn world. I am a Vice-President of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and of Pax Christi UK which has done its best over many years to promote Papal teaching on peace. http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22555 2013-05-16T11:08:00Z 2013-05-16T11:08:00Z Labour leader Ed Miliband was one of 57 MPs who came to speak to yesterday's Religious Lobby of Parliament calling on the government to act on global hunger. He said: "Politics is too important to be left to the politicians. Of course you need political leadership but you need people. All the major changes that have happened in political history only happened because people made them happen. "Keep the pressure on us. Keep the pressure on David Cameron and on me and on Nick Clegg to do the right thing, to do our duty as politicians, to make good on our promises http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22554 2013-05-15T17:57:27Z 2013-05-15T17:57:27Z More than 250 members of religious orders, priests and lay associates lobbied their members of parliament to push for action on global hunger, yesterday, as part of the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign. Organised by CAFOD - in conjunction with JPIC Religious Links, the Africa-Europe Faith and Justice Network, Progressio and others - the lobby came ahead of the G8 summit. The participants, with their vast experience of living and working in developing countries, raised with politicians reasons why one in eight people worldwide go hungry, Ellen Teague http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22548 2013-05-15T04:09:38Z 2013-05-15T04:09:38Z The scandal of world hunger could soon be ended if the revenues that developing countries lose through tax dodging were available to them to invest in agricultural development, says a new report from Christian Aid. One in eight of the world’s population goes to bed hungry, with progress disappointing towards the global goal of halving world hunger by 2015. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) recently cited US$50.2bn per annum, on top of existing funding, as the cost of creating a ‘world free from hunger’ by 2025. http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22547 2013-05-15T04:01:40Z 2013-05-15T04:01:40Z At the end of April, more than 40 religious, associates and third order members gathered for a conference with Mary Colwell on the Spirituality of Creation, titled ‘The World is charged with the grandeur of God’. The weekend is an annual event organised by JPIC (Justice, Peace & the Integrity of Creation) Religious Links and it was held at over a weekend at High Leigh Conference Centre, Hertfordshire. It was a celebration of our relationship with the natural world, as we were reminded by Mary that relationship is the key to everything Gillian Price http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22535 2013-05-13T15:41:55Z 2013-05-13T15:41:55Z Justice and Peace work nationally was celebrated on Saturday at the joint AGMs of the National Justice and Peace Network (NJPN) and Pax Christi, amidst worries that this mission is not more central to Catholic leaders in England and Wales. The day, at Holy Apostles parish hall in London’s Pimlico, was attended by more than 100 people from across England and Wales. NJPN administrator Ann Kelly, expressed “a lot of concern about the loss of J&P fieldworkers in dioceses” over the past year. “J&P is not being given any priority at diocesan level Ellen Teague http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22534 2013-05-13T14:40:03Z 2013-05-13T14:40:03Z Pax Christi's bi-annual Peace Award was given to four local peace activists on Saturday: Susan Clarkson from Oxford, Alison Williams from Wimbledon and Ann and Stewart Hemsley from Cambridge. It was presented during Pax Christi's AGM, by Jose Henrique, the new General Secretary from Pax Christi International. The award is a beautiful medal reflects the work of Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salaam village in Israel for Israeli’s and Arabs to live together, established by the late Fr Bruno Hassar.