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.
A solidarity vigil for the people of Hong Kong, the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, and all oppressed people in China took place outside the Chinese Embassy in Portland Place on Sunday.
Representatives from faith and human rights groups came to voice their concern about China's recent brutal clampdown in Hong Kong, as well as the ongoing savage occupation of Tibet and harsh treatment of the Uyghur...
The UK government will stop providing financial support to coal mining and coal-fired power plants overseas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced at a UK-Africa Investment Summit in London yesterday. Heads of state and governments from more than a dozen countries in Africa attended the investment summit.
Mr Johnson committed to end all support for coal overseas from the aid budget a...
The campaigning group Safe Passage held a rally in Parliament Square yesterday (20th January) in brilliant but cold sunshine, to call for the Government to reinstate Amendment 37 into the EU Withdrawal Bill, which will be voted in the Commons before the end of this week.
Between 300-400 people heard speakers from most parties demanding humanitarian treatment of child migrants across Europ...
Anne Dodd, former Chair of Pax Christi gave the following talk yesterday, Peace Sunday, in Abingdon parish, Portsmouth Diocese.
Every year the Pope issues a reflection for the World Day of Peace. Every Pope has done this for the last 53 years - a reflection on the centrality of peace and reconciliation to what we profess as Catholics. The Bishops of England and Wales have always...
Jeff Halper, the director of ICHAD (The Israeli Comittee Against House Demolitions) will be visiting the UK at the end of January and, amongst other meetings, will be giving public lectures in London and Coventry, including two with Mohammad Sabaaneh, a prominent Palestinian activist and award-winning political caracaturist. Jeff Halper is a well-known Israeli academic, and human rights campaig...
Peace Sunday in England and Wales is on 19 January. Each year Pax Christi, the UK branch of the international Catholic peace organisation, promotes the Pope's World Peace Day message. This year, the message of Pope Francis is, 'Peace as a Journey of Hope: Dialogue, Reconciliation and Ecological Conversion'.
Pax Christi has sent a mailing to every parish in England and Wales, and around 20...
Quakers in Britain are questioning government moves to support the aviation industry. In an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid MP, Quakers say that reducing Air Passenger Duty directly threatens the UK's net-zero commitment. Here is the full text of the letter to Sajid Javid MP: "We are writing to urge the government to reconsider its prop...
Safe Passage with other human rights groups are organising a rally this coming Monday, 20 January, at 1pm in Parliament Square, calling on peers to support refugee family reunification by voting for an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill to protect child refugees when the UK leaves the EU.
Lord Alf Dubs will be one of the speakers at the event. As a child he escaped the Holocaust by comin...
Members of religious congregations in England and Wales are being invited to a day of reflection on Laudato si' as a first step in the launch of a new ecology group. The Conference of Religious is organising three separate meetings around the country in the Spring in order to maximise the number of people who can take part, with attendees expected to start setting objectives on how they can us...
Members of Pax Christi, Christian CND, Westminster J&P and Quakers joined around 2,000 people in London on Saturday, to protest against the threat of war in Iran. Organised by the Stop the War coalition, the march began at BBC Broadcasting House in Langham Place, went down Regent Street - which is still decorated with Christmas angels - and ended with a rally in Trafalgar Square. Hundreds o...
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) calls for an immediate end to all US and Iranian military escalations and a deepened commitment to diplomacy in the region. The world has watched as the governments of the United States and The Islamic Republic of Iran teeter on the brink of war as their armed forces launched drone strikes and ballistic missiles at various targets within the borders of Iraq.
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Bishop Thomas Gumbleton from the Archdiocese of Detroit writes:
Once again, information has surfaced regarding United States governmental efforts to mislead and misinform people about disgraceful, cruel destruction caused by a United States war of choice against people who meant the US no harm. In the Afghanistan Papers, the United States government officials acknowledged, priva...
A national demonstration against war on Iran takes place in London on Saturday, 11 January. Organised by the Stop the War Coalition and CND, the march will sets off from outside Broadcasting House in Portland Place, gathering at 12 noon and walking down to Trafalgar Square.
Pax Christi members will be meeting on the steps of St Martin in the Fields from 1.30pm. Look out for the Pax Christ...
News that the government has reneged on a pledge to guarantee the right of unaccompanied child refugees to be reunited with family members living in the UK after Brexit, has been met with dismay by children's rights campaigners.
On Wednesday, 8 January, MPs voted 348 to 252 against the amendment which had previously been accepted by Theresa May's government.
Lord Alf Dubs, the Labou...
