Gerry Lee, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, wrote the following reflection about the work of active nonviolence by women in Venezuela for the Nonviolence and Justice Peace Conference in Rome in April.
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Merwyn de Mello, returned Maryknoll Lay Missioner, wrote the following reflection about his work for peace in Afghanistan for the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference held in Rome in April 2016.
Maryknoll Sister Teresa Hougnon attended the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference, representing the Maryknoll Sisters’ peace-building team in Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya. The following is her reflection on the conference.
The following statement, entitled “An Appeal to the Catholic Church to Re-Commit to the Centrality of Gospel Nonviolence,” was affirmed by the participants of the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference held in Rome, April 11-13, 2016.
For many months Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns worked with other Catholic organizations and religious communities in planning a landmark Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference, hosted in Rome by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Pax Christi International April 11-13, 2016.
Final statement affirmed by the participants of the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference in Rome, April 11-13, 2016.
Gerry Lee reports from the conference "Nonviolence and Just Peace: Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence."
Pope Francis has sent a message to the participants in the conference "Nonviolence and Just Peace: Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence."
The following prayer was written especially for the conference by Austrian nonviolence activist and theologian Hildegard Goss-Mayr.