Welcome to Pax Christi in Scotland
Honouring the Past, Advancing Disarmament, and Building a Peaceful Future
On June 24th, Pax Christi International hosted an international webinar marking 80 years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We deeply thank all our speakers and participants. Their heartfelt reflections and thoughtful engagement brought depth and a strong sense of shared purpose.
This webinar featured speakers from across the Pax Christi movement (Pax Christi Korea, Pax Christi USA, Pax Christi Italia, Pax Christi Scotland) and our partners in the wider peace and disarmament community. We were pleased to welcome contributions from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN),whose leadership and advocacy continue to inspire the global movement for nuclear abolition.
As we commemorate 80 years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this collective effort renews our commitment to nuclear disarmament and lasting peace.
Watch the webinar recoding here / Download the webinar materials here
If you have any reflections, questions, or would like to stay connected, please feel free to reach out to Giulia Bordin at g.bordin@paxchristi.net.
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The Peace of Christ
Pax Christi Scotland became one of the member organisations of Pax Christi International in 2019. This Catholic peace movement, with its 120 member organisations worldwide, promotes peace, respect of human rights, justice and reconciliation throughout the world.
The global network, founded in 1945 at the end of the Second World War, believes that peace is possible and that vicious cycles of violence and injustice can be broken. Pax Christi Scotland seeks to address the root causes & destructive consequences of violence within our own society, as well as campaigning to end violent conflict and war around the world.
Pax Christi Scotland supports Pax Christi International’s role as an influential advocate at intergovernmental levels, influencing global peace policy in the UN and UNESCO, the African Union, and the European Union. We are represented on Pax Christi International’s anti nuclear group.
Striving for a nonviolent society in Scotland is our top priority, working through the home, the school, the parish and wider society. With our members, scattered across the length and breadth of Scotland, we will address:
- Discrimination in all its forms
- The language of violence
- The need for a peace-filled welcome for refugees & migrants
- The need for divestment from nuclear & conventional weapons
- The need to remove Trident from Scotland & persuade the UK government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Our aim is to produce resources, to provide an online space for reflection, discussion and training, to be advocates for change in all arenas concerned with nonviolence, and to raise awareness injustice and disregard for human rights.
These are not easy times, but the fact that so many of us here in Scotland and around the world work and pray for peace is encouragement that – as Pax Christi International asserts – ‘vicious cycles of violence and injustice can be broken’. Lets break them together.
Pax Christi Scotland chair Marian Pallister participating in the August 2024 vigil at Faslane nuclear base.
Pax Christi Scotland members joined with members of Justice and Peace Scotland at the Faslane August 2024 vigil.
We continue to work for a world free from weapons of mass destruction.