Justice, Peace & Environment

Despite heavy rain, around 25 people attended the October memorial vigil for those who have died trying to reach a place of safety in Europe and the UK. The vigil has been held for over 10 years, in fact, but it restarted after COVID as a regular monthly event, and this month marks the beginning of its fifth year. This week we stood in a covered walkway shivering, dripping and praying a shortened ... Read More

Nearly 1,000 people - including leading MPs and bishops - signed a petition calling for global religious freedom within 12 hours of its launch. Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need is behind the initiative calling on governments and international organisations to protect Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - which guarantees the right to freedom of thought, conscience and... Read More

0.7% of the UK population are refugees. Claims that we're being "overrun" are fear-mongering. Public services are stretched because of decades of underfunding, not migration. £3.3 BILLON This is how much migration brings to UK public finances each year. Migrants contribute in so many ways, from paying BILLION taxes to bringing diverse skills and setting up new businesses. 1 IN 6. People ar... Read More

On 21 October 2025, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, delivered a statement during the Thematic Discussion on Nuclear Weapons in the First Committee of the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly. Warning that recent rhetoric and efforts to expand arsenals reveal the dangerous f... Read More

Oliver McTernan is a Conflict Resolution and Mediation Expert working with Forward Thinking, a demand-driven, independent charity working to resolve conflict through inclusive dialogue. We are eight days into a very fragile ceasefire, which facilitated the release of the twenty Israeli hostages and some of the dead in exchange for nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners. The ceasefire and exchanges have... Read More

Last week Pax Christi was thrilled to hold the second group meeting of the 'Peace Pairs' project, an intergenerational mutual co-learning programme. Based on the programme from Pax Christi USA, the project is a year-long programme bringing together peacemakers from different generations to learn from each other, support each other in their peacemaking and to explore nonviolence. Each pair meets up... Read More

Neha Shah, vice-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, hailed the 'largest protest movement in British History', as hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of central London on Saturday, to mark two years since the start of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. An estimated 600,000 people bearing flags and banners (often with arresting and witty art) marched from the Embankment to Whi... Read More

More than half a million people took part in Saturday's march for Gaza - the 32nd National March since 7 October. The Christian bloc gathered for prayers before the march at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in Shaftsbury Avenue, (where Martin Luther King Jr gave his his first sermon in the UK in 1961.) Prayers led by Rev Helen Burnett, CoE Vicar in Chardon, Southwark Diocese. Naomi Orrell from th... Read More

Sunday, 12 October, marked the start of the World Week of Prayer for Peace, originally a Christian event started in 1974 and now open to all faith traditions. Resources are produced each year to help communities come together and pray and reflect on making peace, in the spirit of its original Chair Dr Edward Carpenter, former Dean of Westminster Abbey: 'The peace of the world must be prayed for by... Read More

During Good Money Week (6 - 12 October) Sixteen religious, associates and friends met at the FCJ Spirituality and eco-justice centre in Euston, London, together with seven participants who joined via zoom, for the JPIC Links conference: 'Changing futures' (Transforming Global Finance for Development) The day was held just after the Jubilee of Consecrated Life which Pope Leo XIV celebrated with th... Read More

The Week of Prayer for World Peace takes place from Sunday, 12th - 19th October this year. The International Prayer for Peace Lead us from death to life, from falsehood to truth Lead us from despair to hope, from fear to trust Lead us from hate to love, from war to peace Let peace fill our hearts, our world, our universe Click the link below to download your digital copy of the prayer resource, or... Read More

Aid agencies and peace campaigners have welcomed news of the Gaza ceasefire, but warn that there is a long road to recovery ahead. They point out that the current agreement is deeply flawed and does not offer Palestinians a just or lasting peace. Reacting to news that the first phase of a ceasefire agreement has been reached between Israel and Hamas, Elizabeth Funnell, CAFOD Country representativ... Read More

The latest National March for Palestine takes place in London this Saturday. The Christian Bloc will be gathering for prayers in Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, SWC2H 8EP at 12 noon before joining the march. We will then walk down and join the route for the march to Downing Street - usually after the Jewish Bloc. Please help spread the word! We will praying and appealing for an end to the fami... Read More

The Scottish Bishops Conference write today: We recognise that the situation in Gaza and Israel is changing rapidly, and in the coming days there may be announcements about possible peace agreements. Whatever happens, we continue to invite everyone to join us in prayer for peace on 7th October and if agreements are reached, that they may hold and bring lasting justice for all. The Bishops' Confe... Read More