Accompaniment on U.S.-Mexico border
From CNI steering committee member Eli McCarthy: (Updated) On Dec. 15, 2018, a trained group providing protective accompaniment joined a large posadas gathering at the San Diego/Tijuana border. Las Posadas […]
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Pax Christi International is a global Catholic peace movement and network that works to help establish peace, respect for human rights, justice and reconciliation in areas of the world that are torn by conflict. It is grounded in the belief that peace is possible and that vicious cycles of violence and injustice can be broken.
CNI update, December 2018
Since its founding in 2016, the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International in partnership with several other international Catholic organisations, has significantly advanced the conversation and understanding […]
Lebanon’s Catholic leaders urge peace
Posted by La Croix, 20 November 2018 Catholic religious leaders in Lebanon have appealed to the international community to stop wars in the Middle East and work to bring about […]
Pope: Universities must be “involved in planting the seeds of peace.”
One of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative’s goals is an increased awareness of and commitment to teaching peace and nonviolence in Catholic schools and universities. We are heartened by the following […]
Conscience and remembrance: 100 years after World War I
Photo of Commonwealth World War I cemetery in Belgium by Johnny Zokovitch, 2016 World War I, the “war to end all wars,” ended 100 years ago this week. Pax Christi […]
Migrants process in caravan in spirit of salt march, March on Washington
Photo: KNAU, Arizona Public Radio Our friend Pietro Ameglio, who works with SERPAJ-Mexico (Servicio Paz y Justicia/Peace and Justice Service), speaks in the video below about the caravan of migrants […]
Transform violent relationships and structures within the Church
From the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative: “Active nonviolence is an effective way to engage the violences of our world, including the violence of sexual abuse that has led to the heartbreaking scandal in our church. The Catholic Church can make an essential contribution in response to this crisis by transforming violent […]
European ecumenical network calls churches to nonviolence
Church and Peace, based in Germany, is the European ecumenical peace church network of communities, training centres, peace organisations and peace service agencies. The following article was published on the Church […]