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A Universal Cry for International Peace and Security Delia Chatoor, our eyes and ears at the United Nations, says that the UN’s New Agenda for Peace chimes well with Pope Francis’s theme for the 2025 World Day of Peace. Read her latest Pax Christi Scotland blog… On July 20, 2023, the Secretary-General of the United […]

Climate justice and peace can’t be separated. In her latest blog, Delia Chatoor, Pax Christi Scotland’s eyes and ears in Trinidad and Tobago & at the UN, reflects on this year’s International Mother Earth Day, which highlights polluting plastics.  In 2009, the United Nations designated April 22 to be the annual International Mother Earth Day and

The War Against Ukraine in the Light of “Fratelli tutti” By Dr Wolfgang Palaver Dr Wolfgang Palaver, Professor of Religious Studies at Innsbruck University and a Pax Christi colleague in Austria, was invited to speak at a conference organised by the Ukrainian Catholic University. He has kindly agreed that an adaptation of his presentation about

By Anne Dobbing, Pax Christi Scotland Member On Thursday 25th January 2024, in Alabama USA Kenneth Smith, aged 58, was executed by being forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a face mask. The procedure took 22 minutes, and he writhed and convulsed and pulled at the gurney restraints as he gasped for air. Reading

Image Credit: Dan Palraz – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=126107180 Anne-Marie Clements, Catholic Social Teaching Engagement Officer at Justice and Peace Scotland and a Pax Christi Scotland executive committee member, reflects on the tragedy of the Holy Land this Christmas On Saturday, 16th December, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem reported that IDF snipers carried out

By Hugh Foy, Pax Christi Scotland executive committee member Recently in Glasgow I attended the first of the recent demonstrations to campaign against the punitive actions of the Israeli state in Palestine. These of course occurred all over the world shortly after the Israeli government reacted in the aftermath of  the horrendous Hamas terrorist attacks.

27th September 23 Sr Bride Counihan is an Irish Little Sister of the Assumption, living in Cork. She spent 17 years working in the semi-desert region of Brazil before returning to Ireland to take up the role of fund-raiser for overseas missions in four countries – Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Madagascar.  She makes no secret of

And God saw that it was good. And it WAS good. Air that was pure; rivers and seas that nourished the creatures that lived therein; pastures, desert, forests – each in their place, each with its purpose, each working for the good of Mother Earth. It is so easy to recognise what God saw when

A personal viewpoint by Pax Christi Scotland ‘s Anne Dobbing I have never visited the Holy Land, but we all know the significance of the land at the Eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea to people of the Jewish, Christian and Moslem faiths. I was once given an old book called Yahweh’s Land, with photos

We think we know what climate change is & how it affects our environment & our peace. If you are 13 years old, the enormity of this can be overwhelming. Matildah Nkhanga Mwandila, a Grade 9A student at St Columba’s Secondary School in Lusaka, Zambia, puts climate justice into her perspective. Humanity faces many threats, but