Good News Stories: gathered form our members and supporters at the Pax Christi AGM 2015
Commemoration of action of WW1 Conscientious Objectors in Richmond Castle, York.
Peace Quiz in French! At Pax Christi Pavilion in Lourdes.
Good media coverage of protest at RAF Waddington drones base.
Good Peace Sunday celebration at local parish.
Being able to recommend Sue Scott for Pax Christi peace medal.
Plans for peace walk/trail in Cambridge and York.
Being able to help refugees at refugee centre.
New J&P post for Assumption Sisters.
Trident safety etc problems being leaked.
Good response to Wrap Up Trident campaign.
Yorkshire Remembrance Challenge. Tim Devereux is cycling 925 miles which would be the length of all the British and colonial soldiers who died in WW1 if they lay end to end.Tim is drawing attention to the huge cost of war in terms of lives. Money raised is going to combat stress, M A War, Yorkshire CND, Christian Peace Education Trust.
Bruce’s anti-trident tour, which included a well-attended Pax Christi meeting in Oxford.
Getting (or trying) to get a mental health trust to disinvest from arms companies.
My wife is getting a Peace Award.
30th anniversary of Peace Pagoda, Battersea.
Vigil each week outside Japanese embassy to draw attention to link between nuclear power (eg Fukishima Disaster) and nuclear weapons and to protest against further nuclear power stations in Japan and UK.
Film “The Stones Cry Out” (Palestine) shown by parish J&P.
Visiting Mosque in East London for Bruce Kent’s Scrap Trident.
Parliament lobbying re cancelling Trident.
Wrap-up Trident event.
Organised parish mass for Oscar Romero.
Peace Sunday: gave out resources.
Silent Witness in Cambridge for peace in Israel.
Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle interreligious event. Joint Christian/ Muslim women’s prayers for peace – 5 years.
The wonderful support from St Martin-in-the-fields in January for the preliminary liturgy and statements opposing nuclear weapons before the pink scarf event demo at the MOD.
Climate change – Paris Conference Dec 2015 – praying and fasting for raising awareness of matters ecological (material available)
NJPN Networking Days. Opportunities for making contacts and developing work.
Pink scarf – produced more than enough, captured imagination.
Comboni Sisters work in Bethany.
Blockading Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment with Birdsong and Welsh singers.
Campaigning to change the military ethos in UK and elsewhere.
Tonio Bello – Italian bishop and International President of Pax Christi – his work with homeless.
Peace Vigil outside Westminster Cathedral on Nagasaki and Hiroshima anniversaries.
United Nations Peacemakers Commemoration Day.
Meeting scheduled on ethics of nuclear deterrents in Houses of Parliament in 2016. (nuclearmorality.com)
Peace Garden ceremony in parish peace garden – 30 people present at anniversary of First World War.
West Midlands investment in arms industry has dropped by 12% in last 12 months. Local democratic petitioning/campaigns.
Garden project in South London is now working with people with trauma from the Sri Lankan civil war.
Two demonstrations for the right of waiting staff and those who work in hospitality.
Getting funding to support female asylum seekers and refugees
Women’s interfaith prayers.
EPAL (Eastbourne for Peace and Liberty) commemoration of WW1 centenary and memorial to all who have died in wars over the last 100 years held on Beachy Head on International Peace Day (Sept 2014)
Giving support to all of good will and standing for peace with all of good will.
Sowing seeds of peace at many events.
Inspiration of the trip to Bethlehem. Though heartbreaking, but Pax Christi brings hope.
Witness for Ash Wednesday in Liverpool because of Networking.
Working in Africa – Gambia and working on broader issues of Justice and Peace.
Words of asylum seekers. Good we are open to welcoming them. They are grateful for help.
Long history of successfully promoting J&P in schools, community and trainee teachers.