Unprecedented conference entitled “Nonviolence and Just Peace: Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence” in Rome, April 11-13, 2016.Photos from the conference can be found here.
With ethnic cleansing and extreme violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East – and the threat of nuclear war looming on the Korean peninsula – we are looking more closely at the role of the Catholic Church in the work of active nonviolence.
“Nonviolence: A style of politics” is the title of the World Day of Peace message from Pope Francis on January 1, 2017.
On October 2, voters in Colombia rejected by a very slim margin a peace deal that would have ended a 50-year civil war. Colombian Fr. Francisco de Roux, SJ, one of the participants in the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference held in Rome last April, wrote the following reflection immediately after the results of the vote were announced. This reflection was originally published by the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, https://nonviolencejustpeace.net/.
This 10-page guide offers reflections, questions, prayers, and actions based on the Gospel readings and testimonies of Catholic peacemakers on Jesus’ teachings about nonviolence.
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.
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.
Unprecedented conference entitled “Nonviolence and Just Peace: Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence” in Rome, April 11-13.
