by Sarah Maguire | Mar 19, 2024 | Diary
Today is the Feast Day of Saint Joseph the Worker. For our March Monthly Prayers, Thursday 21st March at 7p m, we focus on the Humanitarian workers who are present at times and places of greatest human need: Conflict, Famine, Natural Disasters and other terrible...
by Sarah Maguire | Feb 19, 2024 | News
February’s APF Prayers focused on ‘Women and Peacebuilding’. Through prayer, reflection, and song, we considered the stories of women peacemakers ranging from Saint Brigid of Ireland, to Vera Brittain, an early member of APF to contemporary women...
by Sarah Maguire | Feb 9, 2024 | News
The Winter 23-4 issue of The Anglican Peacemaker is now available to read online. The theme for this issue is ‘Women in War’ with an in-depth look at Vera Brittain, a founding member of APF. There are also reflections on the situation in Gaza, and we hear...
by Sarah Maguire | Feb 3, 2024 | News
On 1st February, St Brigid’s Day, 2024, Irish peace campaigners Swords Into Ploughshares (StoP) went to Iveagh House to present the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs with a St Brigid’s Cross, a copy of the Downpatrick Declaration and a letter, accompanied...
by Sarah Maguire | Feb 1, 2024 | News
In this recording made for APF Monthly Prayers on 25th January the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Bishop Philip Huggins reflects on Christian peacemaking in the year ahead. Philip was assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne also Director of the...