By Carol Burns, Leeds Diocese Pax Christi grp ‘If we don’t learn to live together, we are doomed, this land will be our graveyard’ -these are the words of a representative of the Parents Circle Family Forum. (https://www.theparentscircle.org/en/pcff-home-page-en/) As helpless bystanders, sometimes we can feel the same. There is no solution unless there is negotiation, […]
Peace
31 Oct – The Nonviolence of Jesus in a Violent World
By Carol Burns, Leeds Diocese Pax Christi groupWe made a decision for our Autumn Day of Shared Reflection (held on 28 October 2023) that we would focus on personal reflection. The decision to focus on nonviolence was all the more significant because of the unfolding conflict in Israel Palestine.As Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk […]
19 Sep – new premises for the Bradford Peace Museum
By Liz Firth, Commission member & Peace Museum TrusteeThe Peace Museum, currently based in Bradford City Centre, has announced it is to relocate to new premises at Salts Mill in Saltaire. The move is made possible due to a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £245,651 for an exciting heritage project, ‘IMAGINE: Creating The Peace Museum […]
05 Sep – Peacejam Slam in Leeds in November
By Matty Maslen, Newsletter editorPeaceJam is an international organisation led by 14 Nobel Peace Laureates working to support a generation of future Nobel Peace Laureates. Their vision is “To Make Peace a Verb”.So far, over 1.3 million young people in more than 40 countries have taken part in the PeaceJam programme.On the 11th of November […]
28 May – Conscientious Objectors’ Day event
By Liz Firth, Commission member 15th May is International Conscientious Objectors Day. This year the J&P Commission, Pax Christi and the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival Committee jointly hosted an event to mark the day. Over 60 people joined us at Wheeler Hall in Leeds to listen to speakers, including Rev Clive Barratt, and to watch […]
27 Apr – International Conscientious Objectors’ Day
The Commission is working in partnership with Pax Christi in the Leeds Diocese and the Leeds Palestinian Film festival to draw attention to International Conscientious Objection Day on 15 May.Rev Clive Barratt, who has written a book about first world war conscientious objectors in Yorkshire, will provide a short context for the film which follows. […]
26 Apr – Yorkshire Women in Black groups
Women in Black (WiB) is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. As women experiencing these things in different ways in different regions of the world, we support each other’s movements. An important focus is challenging the militarist policies of […]