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Remembering all those who have refused to bear arms and participate in war, throughout history and today.
Find out more about the online events taking place
All Voices for Peace. Sharing of CO stories: Buddhist, Jain, Christian, Socialist, International Bible Students etc. from Leicester and internationally. See flyer for joining details. Our Director, Theresa, will be speaking briefly about Franz Jägerstätter.
At around sunset, Pax Christi members and friends will be spending time in prayer, in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they remember the Nakba, the forced exodus from their homes beginning in 1948. The prayer time will be online.
You may like to light a candle with us.
Email us for the Zoom link: info@paxchristi.org.uk
Members will need to register in advance for this Zoom online event. Details of resolutions, nominations and joining information are here. Do join us to hear from the staff and members of the Executive Committee. There will be some discussion in smaller online groups and a peace liturgy too.
An online Zoom discussion and prayer time – in the evening. Join us to hear from Aaron Humphriss who recently worked with the Holy See Mission to the UN in New York, on a disarmament and security brief. Firstly, Aaron will make a presentation about his experience. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. Finally, we will spend a short time in prayer together.
Contact us for the Zoom link.
Join People Not Walls to find out why people including families with children, and unaccompanied young people, are taking to the seas and what’s happening on our closest borders, events perhaps encouraging them to do so. Listen to speakers and organisations from both sides of the Channel: Alexandra Limousin (‘L’Auberge des Migrants), Human Rights Observers, Kent Refugee Action Network Youth Ambassadors, Marie Charlotte Fabié (Safe Passage International), Secours Catholique, and others. Then zoom live to the seafront in Dover, to join Seeking Sanctuary and Rt Rev Dr Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop of Dover, for the Commemoration at the plaques for the migrants who died trying to reach the UK.
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Dialogue shaping the future of the UN
To commemorate 75 years since the signing of the UN charter, we are hosting a UN75 dialogue to join in the global conversation about challenges and aspirations for the future of peace. This is a stand-alone event although it follows our previous online discussion and prayer time on the Holy See Mission to the UN and the work of Pax Christi International’s UN representatives in New York. Contact us for the Zoom link: info@paxchristi.org.uk If you can’t join us, add your voice by taking part in the UN survey. More about our event here.
Pax Christi members and friends will gather for a time of quiet prayer and reflection online in advance of the proposed annexation of Palestinian land by Israel on 1st July.
An event hosted by Yorkshire Sabeel.
Why is Donald Trump proposing this plan which most analysts believe is advantageous to Israel and problematic for Palestinians?
- Do the Palestinians have any real influence in the matter?
- To what extent is the Israeli position affected by demographic factors and is there support within Israel for annexing the whole of the West Bank?
- What about the status of Jerusalem?
- If Trump isn’t returned in November, how will that alter the situation?
Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University, an International Security Advisor to the Oxford Research Group and a regular contributor to Open Democracy.
Register via Eventbrite and Yorkshire Sabeel will send you the link.
Join us to hear more about nonviolence and the work of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative – but also to take part in sharing your own thoughts and ideas. Be ready with paper and a big pen to write your own message about nonviolence for a Zoom Gallery photo. Pope Francis says, ‘…the true battlefield, where violence and peace meet, is the human heart.’ An event led by Pat Gaffney. Joining info to follow.
