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Justice, Peace & Environment

News on Laudatio Si, NJPN, Christian environmental groups, initiatives such as Green Christian, peace movements such as Pax Christi & Christian CND, and statements on JPIC from the Pope, the Vatican, and dioceses. See our Justice, Peace & Environment Links page for relevant links.


Priest from Holy Land visits London parish

Fr Fadi Diab with some Kentish Town parishioners, Brendan Metcalfe from FHL,  and members of Christians for Palestine. Image: ICN/JS

Father Fadi Diab, Rector of the Anglican Parish in Ramallah, received a warm welcome when he visited the parish of Our Lady Help of Christians in Kentish Town on Saturday. Fr Fadi is currently on a visit to the UK hosted by Friends of the Holy Land. Born and educated in the West Bank, Fr Fadi is a founder of the Youth Connection for Peace Programme, a member of the Palestine-Israeli Theologians Fo... Read More


Reflection for Home Office Vigil - 18 March 2024

Not casting stones We come here month after month, to pray for asylum seekers and to mark the deaths of those whom the system has failed. We pray, like the importunate widow, each time, for justice for refugees, for a welcome for these strangers. What more can we be doing that we are not already doing? I thought about today's reading, and the woman who apparently deserved stoning, and Jesus's relu... Read More


Celebrating Southwark Caritas first anniversary

St George's Cathedral Southwark. Image ICN/JS

Archbishop John Wilson presided at a Mass in St George's Cathedral on Saturday, 16 March, to celebrate the first year's work of the diocesan Caritas organisation. He was accompanied by a number of clergy, including three of his auxiliaries (one of them retired) and by Canon Victor Darlington who is the Episcopal Vicar responsible for Caritas Southwark. The new organisation started out with four br... Read More


Annual Clergy Justice & Peace Gathering

Wistaston Hall Retreat Centre

For more than 25 years an informal group of Catholic clergy whose ministry involves them in Justice & Peace issues has met at Wistaston Hall, Crewe, to reflect on how our faith can illuminate our understanding of the contemporary world and how our communities can be a sign of hope in our society. This year, the meeting is from 6pm on Sunday, May 5 to breakfast time on Tuesday, May 7. If you w... Read More


Holy Land: 'The Stones Cry Out' report from US peace delegation

Pax Christi USA delegation

From 27 February until 3 March, a delegation including Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace, Scott Wright, and representatives from Friends of Sabeel North America, the Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace, Kairos USA, the Indiana Center for Middle East Peace and other groups, visited Palestinian religious, political, and non-governmental organisation leaders in the West Bank. Upon returning to... Read More


Charities join forces to lobby MPs for a ceasefire in Gaza

Supporters of Christian Aid, CAFOD, Islamic Relief, Parents for Palestine, Action Against Hunger and Friends of the Earth and other charities are heading for London this week to lobby MPs over the crisis in the Middle East. They are calling for politicians to meet with their constituents and discuss the desperate need for an end to the fighting in Gaza. One hundred campaigners are gathering, on Th... Read More


Invitation to Westminster Holy Land Roundtable

The next Westminster Holy Land Roundtable, hosted by the Westminster Justice and Peace Commission will take place Saturday, 23 March from 4-6pm Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, Mayfair, 114 Mount Street London W1K 3AH to share and discuss the response of the Catholic community in the Diocese of Westminster to war and conflict in the Holy Land The horrendous series of events unfoldin... Read More


Stop the War Coalition backs the Pope

Andrew Murray, from the Stop the War Coalition, writes: The Pope may not always be infallible, but he is talking more than sense on the Ukraine war - he is proposing the only solution that could lead to peace. As might have been expected, warmongers across the world have been outraged by Pope Francis's call for the Ukrainian government to have "the courage to raise the white flag" in its war with... Read More


Cardinal Parolin: Pope has said negotiation is not surrender, but a condition for just and lasting peace

Cardinal Parolin

Following Pope Francis' interview on the war in Ukraine with Radio Télévision Suisse, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin discussed the issue with Italian newspaper 'Corriere della Sera'. Vatican News has released the full text of the interview with Gian Guido Vecchi published today. Q: Your Eminence, it is clear that the Pope is calling for negotiation rather than surrender. But why add... Read More


Pax Christi appeal for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine

The Pax Christi International Community has issued the following message for all members to send to Christian faith leaders. The text can be downloaded in English, French and Spanish. We are all shaken by the haunting images and news reports we receive daily. Just when it seems it could not get any worse - it does! What are we to do to stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in the Holy ... Read More


London: Largest-ever march for Gaza ceasefire

Christians gathered at St Peter's, Eaton Square

An estimated half a million people of all faiths and none, marched through London on Saturday, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the violence in the West Bank - in the name of common humanity. Campaigners condemned government rhetoric which linked such protests to 'extremism' and denounced several Western governments' complicity with Israel's war crimes and collective punishment of the... Read More


St Patrick's Day Message for President Biden

Deirdre and a group of residents from Cooley, Co Louth made this powerful message for President Biden in Kilwirra graveyard, Carlingford, Co Louth. The text follows. Watch the video below. We are here at the ancient graveyard of Kilwarra, in County Louth to send a message to you President Biden and to honour our ancestors and yours that are buried here. For centuries Irish people live in poverty, ... Read More


Open letter to PM on government plan to restrict demonstrations

The Amos Trust, Christian Aid, Embrace the Middle East, The Fellowship of Reconciliation and Quakers are among dozens of organisations who have signed a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opposing government proposals to restrict protests. They write: To the Prime Minister, RE: Government proposals to crack down on the right to protest and free expression We, the undersigned, write with great c... Read More


Webinar: Animal Rights from a Faith Perspective

Bishop John Arnold  image ICN/JS

A webinar for Catholics on animal agriculture and an introduction to animal rights from a faith perspective has been organised by Catholic Action for Animals, in collaboration with the Diocese of Salford and the Laudato Si' Action Platform. Bishop John Arnold of Salford, lead bishop on the environment for the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales, is a speaker at the event on Thursday 21 March. He... Read More

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