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  • 20 Jul 2007
    Tutu to join group of peacemaking global 'elders'

    Nobel Peace Laureate and ex-Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to chair a global group of “elders” who will visit some of the world’s conflict zones to offer experience, wisdom, and advice on moving toward non-violent solutions.

  • 23 Apr 2007
    US Lutherans acknowledge call to be peacemakers

    Evangelical Lutherans will take part in a non-violence and conflict transformation workshop next week, to help the denomination respond to the US Virginia Tech shootings and global violence.

  • 12 Apr 2007
    An optimism too far for Palestine-Israel?

    Peace and justice means more than political expediency, argues Timothy Seidel - and behind the fashionable rhetoric of 'two states' for Palestine/Israel lie some highly dubious agendas.

  • 7 Apr 2007
    Global peace initiative announced by churches

    An International Ecumenical Peace Convocation will galvanize a range of actions taken by Christians in a major global peacemaking and justice initiative, says the World Council of Churches.

  • 28 Mar 2007
    World churches in mass mobilisation for peace

    Plans to mobilize churches around the world for peace have been approved by the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee.

  • 20 Mar 2007
    Diplomatic community told: 'don't ignore religious leaders in peacemaking efforts'

    On fourth anniversary of the Iraq War, a new book seeks to show how religious peacemakers often use techniques which are lacking in official diplomatic efforts.

  • 16 Mar 2007
    London vigil for peace in Iraq

    Vigil to commemorate the release of Norman Kember and the other hostages in Iraq (26 November 2005 - 23 March 2006), to commemorate the death of Tom Fox and to remember the on-going suffering of peopl

  • 1 Mar 2007
    Churches urged to support UN peacebuilding commission

    The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee has expressed appreciation for the establishment of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, and urged WCC member churches to encourage and support its efforts.

  • 19 Feb 2007
    Europe is focus of global churches' peacemaking initiative

    St Francis of Assisi's prayer, 'Make me a channel of your peace', was the theme for a celebration of common commitment to overcome violence at a gathering of Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and Protestant church representatives on 17 February 2007 in Wittenberg, Germany.

  • 19 Feb 2007
    Pope says enemy-love and nonviolence are central to Christ's message

    Loving enemies is central to the way of Jesus, and Christian non-violence is not a tactical choice, it is a "a personal way of being" based on God's alternative strength ‚Ä' that was the message of Pope Benedict XVI in St Peter's Rome on Sunday 18 February 2007.