Events

A touring exhibition, sponsored by the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, which explores perspectives on peace from three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam is being welcomed by Bradford Cathedral in November 2018.  This exhibition looks at the way in which the three faiths promote peace – in their teaching, and in the lives of their […]

Serious remembrance of wars calls for serious work for peace. A ceremony of Remembrance and Peace 100 years after the end of the First World War, with speaker(s), to be held in Tavistock Square, London, WC1. Organisations and local groups are encouraged to publicise this and also plan their own events.   Organised by the […]

Serious Remembrance of Wars Calls for Serious Work for Peace Drop by at Friends House, Euston Road, London, to meet peace activists and find out about current peace campaigns. (No previous experience necessary!)   Café, live music, films, books, stalls, with children’s programme led by Woodcraft Folk. As well as the organisations which make up the […]

As World War I has come to represent war in essence (at least for Western Europe), so Armistice Day serves to represent peace. It is worth our while, as thinking and intentional beings, to give some proper consideration to peace. Peace is more than just an absence of killing, persecution, and forced flight. I know that to […]

Can we find hope in times of conflict – personal, communal, international? EXPLORING CREATIVE APPROACHES TO PEACEMAKING Keynote Speaker - Pádraig Ó Tuama, Leader of the Corrymeela Community Rev. Simon Taylor, Baptist Chaplain, will chair. GROUP DISCUSSIONS JO BERRY, founder of charity Building Bridges for Peace, whose father died in the Brighton bombing; her dialogue with […]

Public Meeting Tour: Stop Bombing Yemen, Stop Arming Saudi November 2018 - January 2019 across the UK The Saudi regime is one of the most brutal and authoritarian anywhere in the world. Its ruler Mohammed Bin Salman is implicated in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey and has rounded up and tortured opponents […]

Reflecting on Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan. Pax Christi are hosting this event with Jim Forest.  A writer, activist, co-founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship in the United Stated, Jim knew, worked with and has written on Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan. Hosted by Pax Christi with the Thomas Merton Society of […]

A tribute to the Anglo-Welsh Artist and Poet David Jones by Jonathan Hutchins celebrating Jones’ life and work. Jonathan Hutchins will be exhibiting his painting based on David Jones’ Epic War Poem ‘In Parenthesis ‘which describes the attack on Mametz Wood by the Welsh Fusiliers during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. free. […]

Peace is not a fairy-tale – we have to work to make it happen.* ‘Let us do what leads to peace and builds our common life’ (Romans 14:19) During this day of reflection and discussion, which Church and Peace is organising in collaboration with Fellowship of Reconciliation UK, we will think about some of the […]

"The world needs to find another way… obviously nuclear disarmament cannot be left just to nuclear states. The most hopeful sign is what is happening at the UN with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons." Bishop Stephen Cottrell, 2018. In cities across the UK Christians will be marching in demonstration against nuclear weapons. Glasgow: 2.45, South Gate, Faslane. Transport available […]