by Sarah Maguire | Feb 23, 2022 | News
In response to the threat of war in Ukraine, Nobel Prize winning Belfast peace activist Mairead Maguire has published an open letter to Presidents Biden and Putin. In her letter, reported on in the Irish News Mairead calls on the two world leaders to meet together in...
by Sarah Maguire | Feb 19, 2022 | News
Some months ago, the Community of the Cross of Nails (CCN) hosted an online event taking an initial look at the unfolding environmental and ecological catastrophe that we are facing, and how we, as Christians committed to peace and reconciliation might respond. After...
by Sarah Maguire | Jan 28, 2022 | News
Many thanks to those who were able to join us for our prayer vigil for peace in the Ukraine on Wednesday evening. The event was not recorded to make it easier for people to reflect and express themselves spontaneously but the PowerPoint of the session including the...
by Sarah Maguire | Jan 19, 2022 | News
Coming Soon: “Facing the future: reconciliation and ecological crisis” – a short, online course for peacemakers and reconcilers in APF and the CCN (Community of the Cross of Nails. This is a newly developing project shared by the two organisations. More...
by Sarah Maguire | Nov 12, 2021 | News
Our Chair, Sue Claydon has had a letter published in the Church Times raising the subject of the impact of military emissions on greenhouse gases, emissions which have been left out of overall calculations of harmful emissions. The text of the letter is as follows. As...
by Sarah Maguire | Nov 12, 2021 | News
As a member of APF in New Zealand, I have focussed on the Biblical and theological challenge to the Church on the issue of war, and have contributed to the APF submission to the Lambeth Conferences. It seems to me that this challenge is similar in magnitude to the...