Justice, Peace & Environment

Your Holiness, A happy and blessed Pentecost to you and to all the faithful. I write as a fellow believer and as Director of You Decide, a small Community Interest Company working on the ethics of nuclear weapons through the Nuclear Morality Flowchart. Our conviction is simple: nuclear deterrence is not only a matter of national policy. It is a personal moral decision. At the heart of everything w... Read More

Presentation of the accompanying booklet to the Kairos II document. There are moments in which we are called to make a choice. In Ancient Greek, these moments are referred to as kairos, times of awareness and responsibility. It is from one of these moments that the work of Pax Christi International in support of the document Kairos II: A Moment of Truth - Faith in a Time of Genocide emerges. Sixt... Read More

The Annual General Meeting of Pax Christi England and Wales took place at Maria Fidelis School, Euston, on Saturday, 6th June 2026. The theme for the day was: 'Sowing seeds of Hope'. Kathryn Lyndon, Chair of Pax Christi opened the day by welcoming everybody and thanking all those who helped organising the event. Fr Joe Ryan, Executive Committee member, continued proceedings explaining the theme fo... Read More

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) UK, in partnership with the Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) and the St Vincent de Paul Society have launched the new 'Welcome the Stranger' campaign. The campaign highlights the barriers which refugees and asylum seekers face when seeking sanctuary in the United Kingdom and calls upon the government to restore dignity in the asylum system. The campaign invites... Read More

Churches and faith-based organizations from Colombia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, together with investment and ecumenical partners, have submitted a complaint under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct concerning HSBC Holdings plc and its financial relationship with Glencore, the company ope... Read More

The Meditatio Centre in Islington will be welcoming St Ethelburga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation wonderful initiative to plant trees through the night this coming Saturday. A group is coming from St Ethelburga's at 10.45 pm for a cup of tea, meditation and a talk about the Centre before planting a beautiful fig tree in the Mediatio grounds. They will then go on to several other London centr... Read More

Join Caritas Westminster and the Justice & Peace team of Tollington Park RC Parish for an important free online discussion on knife crime. Open to parishes, schools, young people, families, and the wider community, this forum will explore how we can raise awareness, support young people, and take action locally. This event has grown out of ongoing concern and engagement with the issue of knife... Read More

Virginia Bell writes: The Campaign which calls on Europe to be faithful to its founding values for Our Common Home, reported in ICN 22 May 2026: (140+ faith organisations urge EU to tax massive fossil fuel profits and lead global transition) sounds admirable. But reading through it, I think the Statement is seriously flawed, as it talks only of fossil fuels to be tackled, and only of one of the se... Read More

The International Conference Against War takes place on Saturday, 20 June 2026 in Central Hall, Westminster Speakers will include: Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), Medea Benjamin, American political activist Code Pink, Mothin Ali, Green Party deputy leader, Lorena Delgado Varas, Swedish MP, British MPs Richard Burgon, Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, ... Read More

Bees, butterflies, hedgehogs and trees featured in our visit to St Columban's, UK base of the Columban Missionaries, on Friday 15th May 2026. Laudato Si' Animators came together from various parts of England: Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Liverpool and London. We were the first to walk along the yellow path which now meanders through six acres: some were previously used as pasture ... Read More

A Catholic charity is marking the climax of its rosary peace campaign with schools as the Pope invites the world to join him tomorrow in praying to the Virgin Mary, calling for an end to conflict. Pope Leo XIV will preside over the recitation of the Holy Rosary at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens, Rome, tomorrow (Saturday, 30th May), at 6pm GMT. At a time of increased viole... Read More

Pope Leo XIV has already appealed for peace in the world many times throughout his pontificate. His appeals have always been accompanied with consistent calls for prayer. On Saturday, 30 May at 7pm Pope Leo will preside over the recitation of the Holy Rosary at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens. All people and all Shrines around the world are invited to join him in praying t... Read More

A new joint briefing published by JRS UK and Humans for Rights Network (HFRN) reveals a growing pattern of unaccompanied children being wrongly identified as adults, detained in immigration removal centres, and in some cases forcibly removed to France under the UK-France "one-in-one-out" agreement. The briefing highlights systemic failures in screening, safeguarding, and access to legal support, r... Read More

The World Council of Churches has strongly condemned the widely reported humiliation, manhandling and degrading treatment of activists detained by Israeli authorities following the illegal interception of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters. (Among the volunteers was 72 year old RAF veteran pilot Malcolm Ducker. Several have been hospitalised for their injuries.) WCC general secre... Read More