Justice, Peace & Environment

Catherine Robinson from Right to Life UK writes: We are expecting the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill to have its Second Reading in the House of Lords on Friday 12 September. There is a real chance we can defeat this Bill in the Lords - and the assisted suicide lobby knows it. That's why their campaign in the Lords is now in full swing. Several Peers have told us they're getting a large amount o... Read More

Pax Christi England and Wales and Pax Christi International have issued the following statements in response to the deadly attack on the Holy Family Church in Gaza today. Pax Christi England and Wales This morning's horrific news that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) struck the Holy Family Church in Gaza is both shocking and shameful. We know that at least six people are injured, including Fr Roma... Read More

Dear Foreign Secretary David Lammy I was saddened and outraged to hear of the bombing by the IDF, of the only Catholic Church in Gaza. This church received daily phone calls from the late Pope Francis. It was a Church that provided food and shelter for Christian and Muslim without prejudice. It demonstrated the best of humanity. Please condemn this wicked action, along with many others, carried o... Read More

Christians from many different churches will be gathering at 12pm this Saturday, 19th July, at Victoria Embankment Gardens to join the latest National March for Palestine in London. More than 84,000 people are known to have died in Gaza since October 2023. Thousands more are missing under the rubble. There are tens of thousands of child amputees. Meanwhile on the West Bank there have been more and... Read More

Victims of knife crime in London were remembered at a memorial event held at St Mellitus Church, Tollington Park, in north London on Saturday 12 July. Fifty names were read out, and candles lit in memory of those young people: all under 30, many of them teens, of all ethnicities, and all leaving grief-stricken family and friends to cope with such devastating and senseless violence. Fifty, represen... Read More

Pax Christi International has issued the following statement in response to sanctions imposed by the US government on Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories. Pax Christi International stands in unequivocal support of Francesca Albanese UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, follow... Read More

The campaign to clear the name of the late Jesuit priest Fr Stan Swamy continued with a vigil outside the Indian High Commission in London. Peaceful protestors gathered in front of India House, in Aldwych, on Friday, 11 July, where they stood silently with placards calling for Fr Stan to be exonerated. Fr Stan spent most of his life defending the rights of vulnerable communities in India, includin... Read More

Pax Christi International issued the following statement yesterday: On the 8th anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (#TPNW), and in this year that marks 80 years since the bombings of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki, Pax Christi International renews its call for a world free from nuclear arms. We remember with sorrow the lives lost and scarred in 1945, and we honour the witnes... Read More

Best-selling writer and historian William Dalrymple spoke about Gaza and Palestine, and about Britain's historic responsibility for the situation there. His speech introduced 'A Golden String: William Blake in Words and Music ' a fundraising event for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) at St James' Church, Piccadilly, London on 30 May, 2025. An ICN transcript of the full text follows: Seventy sev... Read More

Faith groups joined a mass lobby of parliament on climate change and biodiversity yesterday, (Wednesday 9 July). Calling for action 'For People, For Climate, For Nature' they met their local MPs from across the UK, urging them to tackle the climate crisis and protect the natural world in line with moral responsibility, human dignity and the stewardship of creation. They wanted the government to co... Read More

Pax Christi International, along with 160+ NGOs, call for immediate action to end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme (including the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) in Gaza, revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government's blockade on aid and commercial supplies. The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporary ceasefire across Gaza ... Read More

Thousands of people from more than a hundred organisations and schools, will be taking part in a national lobby of parliament tomorrow, (Wednesday 9 July) calling for leadership from the UK government to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises. CAFOD, Jesuit Missions, Columbans, FCJ Sisters are among the Catholic groups involved, and the organisations are part of The Climate Coalition. The fami... Read More

A Christian service of remembrance for those who have died during the war in Gaza will be held at the Foreign Office in King Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH, on Monday, 28 July, from 12.30pm -1.30pm During our prayer, we will read out some of the names from a list of 50,000 people who are known to have died so far in Gaza, (many thousands more are missing under the rubble) - a name for each 28th ... Read More

In the July issue of the NW NJPN E Bulletin we pay tribute to Ann Gill, former Fieldworker for Shrewsbury Diocese Justice and Peace Commission and dedicated peace campaigner. Ann's requiem Mass was on 4 July - doubtless Ann would have had plenty to say about the current state of the USA. A challenging opinion piece from a US Deacon makes the connection between "cheap" patriotism and "costly" p... Read More